4.5 Mobilizing Against Malaria

Marvi Rebueno-Trudeau is the Deputy-Executive Director of the Pilipinas Shell Foundation. She initially studied business management and founded a firm which represented foreign companies at the Asian Development Bank. Later she retired to Palawan, an island in the Philippines archipelago. Once there she was moved to come out of retirement in order to address various social issues in the community, namely malnutrition and high rates of malaria. She joined Pilipinas Shell Foundation, which funded a community-based province wide malaria program. The success of this malaria program enabled the foundation to be selected as a primary recipient of further grants from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

We speak about:

• a community based approach to malaria prevention, detection and treatment
• the importance of fostering the buy-in of government partners
• using the malaria program as a catalyst for system wide health strengthening
• embodying transparency and accountability
• the role of the private sector in community development
• ensuring sustainability in programming - and much more!

She joins us from Palawan, Philippines.