Health is a basic need and human right. There are consistent efforts to enhance equity in health and wellbeing within and across countries. This will be achieved through education, community action and healthy public policy. Envisioning a world where all people achieve optimal health and well-being is a welcome reminder of supportive actions to empower people to control their own health and promote healthy societies. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health. The first International Conference on Health Promotion was held in Ottawa in 1986. This was a major milestone in terms of timely response to growing expectations of public health movement around the world. Afterwards, the relevance and scope of health promotion have widened its socio-political horizon in the larger context of global health. Advocacy Despite advocacy and social movements, existing efforts are still inadequate to elevate interventions to new levels. Our scholarship has grossly failed to examine important and timely issues about community health and implement cost-effective interventions to improve health outcomes. Based on lessons learned, multi-sector engagement is crucial for bold policy making in health promotion that aims to embrace equity and wellbeing. Health promotion is a profound concern for policy makers, health workers, civil society, communities, media and private sectors. The complexities and scales of inclusive policies for health are evidently vast to our ecosystems. Framing and scoping health promotion is necessary amid climate change and ecological disruptions, non-communicable diseases, indigenous health, geopolitical shifts, political unrest and many more. From worldviews, the classical divides between North and South, decolonising practices, policies and knowledge systems reveal that we can imagine a resilient and healthy future by building on health promotion legacies at large. Considering evolving challenges in our changing world, while