Ensure people survive and thrive
Improving health care systems
At the UBS Optimus Foundation, we help you maximize your impact in the area of health. Your contribution will help increase access to and the quality of health services in communities, clinics, and hospitals that will save children’s lives.
Greatest opportunity: contributing to children under the age of five
Contributing to child health is both a moral and economic imperative. A nation's productivity – and economic growth potential – depends on children surviving and thriving. Despite this, only 21 percent of global health funding is spent on children, who often lack access to low-cost, effective healthcare.1
That's why within child health, our overall goal is to support programs that expand the reach of quality health services to the most vulnerable children between the ages of 0 to 18, with a particular focus on children under age of five.
Evidence-based solutions
Evidence-based solutions
To help you maximize your philanthropic impact in the area of health, we, at the UBS Optimus Foundation have conducted detailed landscaping studies that helped us to identify priority health conditions, knowledge gaps and areas of under-investment by other foundations and government donors. Based on these findings, we suggest you focus your efforts on addressing last mile gaps in public health, and the lack of surgical and pediatric cancer care in developing countries – by supporting carefully selected non-profit organizations.
Three entry points
Three entry points
You can strengthen health care systems through three entry points:
1. Frontline health care
1. Frontline health care
Community health workers and primary health care facilities are central to ensuring the most vulnerable get care – both go hand in hand.
2. Safe surgery
2. Safe surgery
Access to safe and affordable surgery is critical to achieve universal health coverage.
3. Pediatric cancer care
3. Pediatric cancer care
With timely diagnosis and treatment, most children can survive cancer.