Scaling up quality, affordable primary healthcare holds the greatest potential to improve children’s and mother’s health, leading to reduced rates of under-five, neonatal, and maternal mortality. We are focusing on patient-centered care and prioritize integrated and data-driven primary healthcare models that address a wide range of health needs across the continuum of care.

The UBS Optimus foundation is developing a comprehensive social impact strategy for mental health, with plans to launch the foundation initiative by the end of 2024. In alignment with UBS Optimus Foundation’s thematic priorities – health, education and climate – your philanthropy funds can help address key challenges in global mental health so that young people and their families can thrive in communities where mental health challenges are understood and managed effectively.

In collaboration with UBS Global Wealth Management UBS Optimus Foundation is a beneficiary of the Oncology Impact Fund I and II (OIF). We are supporting a strategic social impact portfolio of programs to sustainably address the biggest barriers to access to diagnosis and treatment in lower-income countries, i.e. lack of pediatric oncology specialists and cost of treatment.

Through the education portfolio, your philanthropy funds support the development of strong learning foundations, from a child’s early years all the way through helping young people to gain the foundational skills for a formal employment.

With our environment portfolio, our mission is to contribute to the mitigation efforts of climate change whilst supporting vulnerable communities and sustaining biodiversity.

The social impact funds for our emergency response to humanitarian and disaster aid align with our routine portfolio of focus areas: healthHealthcare philanthropy from UBS Optimus Foundation, education education philanthropy from the UBS Optimus Foundationand climate Climate and environmental philanthropy from the UBS Optimus Foundationphilanthropy. This enables us to quickly and diligently grant funding to our existing, trusted partners. It also helps ensure that the UBS Optimus Foundation can both respond to the immediate crisis as well as the longer-term recovery and transition (back to) development. We particularly focus your investment on systems that affect children and families like health, education and social protection that can help in recovery and resilience.