Partei für Gesundheitsforschung

The Party for Health Research is a single-issue political party in Germany founded in 2015 with the goal of accelerating the development of effective drugs to counter age-related diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, macular degeneration, arthrosis, osteoporosis, and Parkinson disease.[3]

The party seeks to increase the number and size of pertinent research facilities, and to expand education and training of professionals in those fields.[4] The party also strives to raise public interest in medical research in order to cause large established parties to focus more on this subject.

The party adopts a neutral position on subjects that do not immediately pertain to health research.

As of April 2021, the party has state associations in 13 of 16 German states: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia.[5]

As of March 30, 2021, the party has participated in eight state elections as well in the 2017 German federal election and the 2019 European Parliament election, achieving the following results:

• 2016 Berlin state election:[6] 0.5%
• 2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election: 0.1%
• 2017 German federal election: 0.1%
• 2018 Bavarian state election: 0.1%
• 2018 Hessian state election: 0.1%
• 2019 European Parliament election: 0.2%
• 2019 Saxony state election: 0.5%
• 2019 Thuringian state election: 0.5%
• 2020 Hamburg state election: 0.2%
• 2021 Baden-Württemberg state election: 0.0%; candidacy only in the electoral constituencies Stuttgart IV (0.4%)[7] and Ulm (0.4%)[8]
• 2021 German federal election: 0.1%

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