About Us

With insight to impact

The challenges in health, prevention, care, and well-being are significant and increasingly urgent. This creates a clear need for an organisation that connects scientists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and citizens and fosters collaboration to realise impact. This forms the foundation of Health~Holland’s work.

Together with our partners, we strengthen an ecosystem in which research reaches practice more rapidly and with greater impact; in which entrepreneurs and researchers have the opportunity to develop; and in which society benefits from new technologies and therapies. We identify systemic barriers, recognise opportunities as they arise, and act with the agility required to advance innovation. In doing so, we remain committed, now and in the future, to supporting an innovative, resilient, and healthy Netherlands.

How do we do this? We...

  • Implement the PPS-I scheme and invest strategically in research and innovation that create economic and societal value;
  • Support entrepreneurs, start-ups, and scale-ups through Zorginnovatie.nl, LS@W, and our valorisation team, enabling promising insights to grow into concrete applications;
  • Connect scientists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and citizens, ensuring that together we can move with insight to impact;
  • Identify and actively address bottlenecks that slow down the development, market introduction, or adoption of innovations;
  • Position the Netherlands internationally as a leading innovation country within the Life Sciences & Health sector;
  • Use our (inter)national networks to expand opportunities, bring partners together, and accelerate collective progress;
  • Fulfil our role within the Mission-Driven Innovation Policy, bringing together knowledge, partners, and resources around the Health & Care missions;
  • Carefully guide ongoing PPS-I grants and programmes, ensuring quality, continuity, and impact through 2032/2033.

Will you join us?

Do you also want to move with insight to impact? Get in touch! We're happy to help.

In our annual year reports we summarize our performance:

Health~Holland Annual Report 2024 (NL)
Health~Holland Annual Report 2023 (NL)
Health~Holland Annual Report 2022 (NL)
Health~Holland Annual Report 2021 (NL)
Health~Holland Annual Report 2020 (NL)
Health~Holland Annual Report 2019 (NL)