Instituto Carso de la Salud
The Carso Institute for Health is a non-lucrative organization that mobilizes private funds to finance social welfare projects in health, nutrition and the environment.
The Institute identifies problems and designs initiatives to face selected problems; chooses partners to coordinate and execute these initiatives; trains, advises and supervises participants and evaluates the results. It can also finance programs presented by other institutions, groups or persons, within the selected priorities.
The initiatives and projects developed by the Institute using resources from Fundación Carlos Slim are entirely allocated to thoroughly search for solutions, and are based on six action platforms (the six “i”s):
- Investigation – the search for new solutions.
- Innovation – the development of the best solutions.
- Implementation – the accelerated application of existing solutions.
- Institutions strengthened in order to generate additional solutions.
- Information, dissemination, evaluation, and analysis to share learning based on the different solutions and thus contribute to transparency and accountability.
- Investment, to implement the designed solutions.
These six action platforms in turn give rise to the following lines of work:
A. Health problems
- Close the social gaps around the Millennium Development Goals: Programa Amanece (Daybreak Program).
- Anticipate and face the emerging challenges represented by non-communicable diseases and injuries: Healthy Longevity.
- Strengthen the safety of people and nations facing health risks derived from globalization: Health without Borders.
B. Intervention strategies
- Mobilize the telecommunications revolution for healthcare: Mobile Health Platform.
- Mobilize social initiatives to innovate health services: Companies for Health.
- Mobilize information and knowledge to better empower citizens to protect their own health: Educational Communication for Health.
Why is the Carso Institute for Health an innovator?
- It promotes a mixed methodology: operational and financial.
- Through strategic analysis it identifies niches of opportunity for investment.
- It collaborates with other social initiatives and programs, and also addresses neglected areas of opportunity.
- It generates cooperative advantages by linking various applications in order to achieve maximum efficiency.
- It generates learning by demonstrating scalable results.
- Utilizes society-business-public sector synergies.
- Ensures the impact of its projects by evaluating and developing various parameters and global reference points.
- Support for fighting poverty. In June 2007 in New York City, Carlos Slim Helú announced his commitment to donate US$100 million to the initiative to fight poverty in Latin America together with Former President of the United States William Clinton, and Canadian entrepreneur Frank Giustra.
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