The 1st XIHF sponsored by SWHF was held successfully on November 13-15, 2018 in Langfang, Hebei, China. The Forum featured 2 keynote sessions, 8 panel sessions, 1 award ceremony, and 12 thematic dialogues, attracting nearly 700 participants in total, including 60 foreign guests. Individual participants were comprised of 1 Nobel Prize Laureate and 9 academicians from China and abroad, over 110 experts and professors, and over 80 entrepreneurs. Institutional participants came from 11 notable colleges and universities, 22 Grade A tertiary hospitals, and over 60 listed companies and large enterprises. CCTV, Xinhua News Agency and over 30 other media outlets provided coverage of the Forum.

With the theme of “Innovation, Equality and Global Health,” the Forum followed the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and arranged discussions on the hot topics such as medical innovation, research and philanthropic practice, innovation for health and sustainable development, capital for health and sustainable development and so on. It also organized sessions on big data and artificial intelligence, medical progress and technological innovation, genomics and personalized medicine, child violence and mental health, women and children's health, medical emergency response in extreme weather times, epidemiology and infectious diseases, nutrition, food safety and non-communicable diseases etc. It was really a feast of thought in the era of comprehensive health.