Zuellig Family Foundation

Since 2008, the Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF) has worked with rural municipalities across the country, using a Health Change Model that serves as a framework for partnerships with local health leaders to achieve better health outcomes, especially among the poor. The Model has succeeded in helping ZFF partner municipalities improve health indicators by transforming the local health system. In particular, responsive health leadership, coupled with new institutional arrangements and innovations in health programs and services, have reduced MMR and IMR in ZFF cohort municipalities in as little as two years. Anchored on the premise that health leadership is key to public healthcare reforms, the Foundations Health Change Model aims to help local chief executives, municipal health officers, and other health professionals, as well as community leaders, improve health governance and make local health systems equitable, responsive and sustainable. The Model promotes institutionalized and ...