World Healthy Industry Association (official full legal name: WORLD HEALTH INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION, abbreviated as WHIA) is an international non-profit legal entity registered with the Colorado Secretary of State under provisions 7-122-101 and 7-122-102 of the Colorado Revised Statutes (C.R.S.) of the United States. It holds independent legal person status, enabling it to sign cooperation documents in accordance with laws, carry out cross-border industrial exchanges, and bear civil rights and liabilities independently. The global headquarters of the Association is located in Denver, Colorado, USA. It focuses on linking resources across the entire global big health industrial chain, promotes the co-construction of industrial standards, the implementation of cross-border collaborations and the exchange of high-quality resources, so as to facilitate steady and sustainable development of the global big health industry.
1. Founding Background
Since the start of the 21st century, the big health sector has evolved into one of the core tracks driving global economic growth. It covers diverse segmented fields including biomedicine, medical devices, health and wellness services, functional nutrition, digital health, public health and the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine, featuring continuous expansion of industrial scale together with surging demands for cross-border technology circulation, project cooperation, brand globalization and standard coordination.
Nevertheless, prevalent challenges remain across the industry: uneven paces of industrial development among countries and regions, fragmented channels for cross-border cooperation, a scarcity of consensus-based industrial standards, and barriers preventing efficient connection of high-quality resources. The industry is in urgent need of a third-party platform with international compliance credentials and non-profit attributes to undertake public functions including industrial research, academic exchanges, resource matchmaking, cultivation of industrial honors and construction of international channels. Against such industrial trends, World Healthy Industry Association was formally incorporated. Committed to deep cultivation in the global big health sector, it builds a regular international collaboration network and delivers long-term support for the globalization of entities within the global health industry.
2. Registration Status and Legal Personality
The Association was jointly initiated and founded by senior practitioners, academic researchers and industrial institutions engaged in big health across multiple regions worldwide, and maintains stable and compliant operation status after formal non-profit legal entity registration in Colorado. Its internal bylaws clearly define operational principles: all proceeds generated from institutional operations are retained within the organization exclusively for positive undertakings including big health industrial research, international exchanges, industrial empowerment and non-profit promotion. No profit distribution shall be made to founders, directors or managerial staff, consistently adhering to the founding tenet as a non-profit organization.
The Association adopts collective decision-making via the Board of Directors, featuring standardized governance structure and transparent financial operations. All operational activities proceed in strict accordance with its registered bylaws to secure long-term stable institutional development.
Figure 1: Registration document issued by the Colorado Secretary of State of the United States, stating the official full English name, registration information and non-profit legal entity qualification of the organization
Figure 2: Screenshot of core clauses in the Association’s bylaws specifying surplus utilization rules and non-profit operational principles
3. Filing Qualifications within the UN System
The Association has completed institutional filing and admission into multiple platforms under the UN system, laying a foundational pathway to access multilateral resources of the UN ecosystem. Due to differentiated formatting rules across individual platforms, variations in capitalization can be observed in its English name (fully uppercase WORLD HEALTH INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION on US registration documents, capitalized initials for content words in the ECOSOC roster, and fully uppercase display on the UN Partner Portal). However, word spelling and sequence remain identical across all versions, referring to one single legal entity. Three UN-system filing qualifications are held as follows:
(1) Enrolled in the Roster of Non-Governmental Organizations under the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
The Association has completed roster registration with the UN NGO Committee of ECOSOC, becoming a roster-listed NGO affiliated to ECOSOC. It is eligible to participate in health-themed conferences, industrial seminars and multilateral thematic exchanges open to roster NGOs hosted by ECOSOC and its subordinate bodies, deeply integrating into global health governance exchanges and expanding channels for industrial voices on the international stage.
Figure 3: Backend screenshot verifying institutional enrollment in the ECOSOC NGO Roster, serving as valid certification of registration status
(2) Institutional Resident on the UN Partner Portal
Formal filing and residency have been accomplished on the UN Partner Portal. Supported by this platform access, regular communication links can be established with multiple UN specialized agencies including WHO, UNICEF, FAO and UNOPS, facilitating discussion and implementation of joint research and cooperative projects focusing on health sectors.
Figure 4: Backend screenshot showing institutional residency on the UN Partner Portal
(3) Registered Vendor Admitted to the United Nations Global Marketplace (UNGM), ID: 1218536
Full admission qualification for UNGM has been obtained with exclusive registration number 1218536. This account was registered under real-name certification by the founding initiator and is fully owned by the Association. It enables continuous reception of procurement demands and multilateral cooperation notices for health-focused projects released within the UN system, opening windows for industrial entities to capture UN-level cooperation opportunities.
Figure 5: UNGM backend registration screenshot presenting official admission ID 1218536
Endowed with the above multi-layer UN-system filing credentials, the Association gains enhanced international institutional endorsement, enabling smoother international communication pathways for global big health organizations and empowering industrial entities to expand beyond domestic markets and connect with worldwide premium resources. The Association only provides services including policy interpretation, resource referral and strategic consulting, and does not engage in agency services for any type of qualification certification.
4. Tenet, Mission and Development Vision
Core Tenet: Boost collaborative development of the global big health industry, deepen international exchanges and cooperation in health sectors, and continuously advance health well-being for all mankind.
Core Mission: Establish a partnership network for global big health collaboration and a cross-border joint project system to drive international transformation and upgrading of the entire big health industrial chain.
Development Vision: Build an international non-profit service platform for big health recognized for extensive industrial credibility, global influence and professional service capabilities.
5. Core Business Scope
Based on its non-profit positioning and aligned with pain points and development demands of the global big health industry, the Association develops three core business segments to fuel holistic industrial growth:
(1) Launch World Health Grand Award to cultivate benchmark honors across the industry
The Association initiates the World Health Grand Award (WHGA), opening regular application channels to enterprises, institutions and outstanding practitioners worldwide within the big health sector. A three-tier evaluation system covering Silver Award, Gold Award and Platinum Award is established to recognize outstanding participants excelling in health technology R&D, premium health services, distinctive health products, sustainable brand development and innovative industrial models. Aligned with Good Health and Well-being, one core target of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the award features independent and rigorous evaluation procedures together with a professional judging panel, evolving into a highly valuable industrial honor IP within global big health.
(2) Empowerment of international channels and linkage of multilateral resources
Leveraging its multiple UN-system filing qualifications, the Association integrates high-quality industrial resources at home and abroad and builds bridges for cross-border supply-demand matching, helping premium health brands and advanced health technologies expand into international markets. Supplementary support including interpretation of UN cooperation frameworks, references for project application strategies and referrals of cross-border cooperation channels is delivered concurrently to help industrial entities seize globalization opportunities.
(3) Industrial research and collaborative formulation of industrial standards
The Association continuously tracks evolving trends of the global big health industry and compiles and releases Global Big Health Industry Development Index as well as research reports for segmented sectors selectively, delivering data references and directional guidance for industrial development. It collaborates with benchmark enterprises, research institutes and specialists worldwide to discuss industrial collaboration guidelines and joint project norms, promoting standardized and orderly advancement of the big health industry.
6. Organizational Structure
The Association adopts mature governance architecture typical of international non-profit organizations, featuring clear division of powers and efficient coordinated operation, forming an integrated operating system covering decision-making, consulting, execution, evaluation and segmented research:
1.Board of Directors: The supreme decision-making body composed of representative figures across the global big health industry, responsible for formulation of medium-to-long term strategies, deliberation on major issues and overall development orientation control.
2.Advisory Committee: Gathers academic scholars, senior industrial experts and policy researchers worldwide to deliver high-level professional consulting support for strategic planning and business layout of the Association.
3.Secretariat: Permanent daily operation hub overseeing comprehensive routine work including administrative operation, global member liaison, official website maintenance, brand development, archives management and qualification coordination.
4.Executive Committee: Implementation body for resolutions, taking charge of practical work such as international exchange visits, delivery of cross-border cooperation and docking of high-end external resources.
5.Evaluation Committee: Maintains fully independent evaluation status and holds overall responsibility for qualification assessment of World Health Grand Award and cooperative institutional admission to guarantee objectivity and impartiality of evaluation outcomes.
6.Specialized Committees: Dedicated committees are set up covering segmented tracks including biomedicine, medical devices, health and elderly care, TCM internationalization, functional healthy food, digital healthcare, mental health, sports wellness, public health and health cultural tourism, organizing regular academic seminars, industrial surveys and thematic salons.
7. International Think Tank and Academic Research System
The Association assembles domestic and overseas research talents and industrial leaders to form an exclusive international think tank matrix. It conducts in-depth research focusing on cutting-edge global big health trends, cross-border industrial bottlenecks, international compliance regulations and industrial upgrading pathways, producing high-quality industrial research reports and thematic papers persistently. The think tank keeps opening admission channels to top specialists in global health sectors via industry recommendation and voluntary application, steadily consolidating the academic research foundation and industrial discourse power of the Association.
8. Global Layout Plan
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, USA, the Association has preliminarily constructed cooperative networks covering core regions of North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific. It will steadily expand global collaboration nodes in subsequent phases, continuously link cross-border big health resources, refine the collaborative network of the global health industry and lift the comprehensive influence of the Association within the international big health landscape step by step.
World Health Industry Association
June 2026