Eliezer is the President and Executive Director of Health Horizons International Foundation (HHI), a non-profit organisation founded in 2009 with a mission to strengthen primary health care in the Dominican Republic. The Foundation has a long-running track record of success in providing healthcare interventions. Since inception it has impacted almost 1.8 million people through various combined programmes, many delivered in collaboration with the country's Ministry of Public Health. HHI has consistently been at the forefront of efforts in the Dominican Republic to deliver education, prevention and integral management of non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension using a comprehensive approach.
Due to this track record of impact, Eliezer and the team were selected as Lead2030 Challenge Winners by AstraZeneca, and Eliezer was invited to participate in its Young Health Programme (YHP). The programme enabled Eliezer and HHI to invest in new public health interventions, by expanding Movimiento Mujeres, a programme focused on women's health.
Movimiento Mujeres has trained 12 young women to become community healthcare workers (CHW), with 30 additional women currently enrolled in training. In addition to normalising conversations around sexual health and mental wellbeing, these CHWs provide their community with health information, support vaccination campaigns, and connect families to healthcare.
Through Movimiento Mujeres and via support from the YHP, 19,210 people have been reached with health services or resources. The programme has significantly improved access to reproductive healthcare in target communities, who have received high-quality, comprehensive health education. In addition, the 12 women who are now CHW, benefited personally from leadership training as part of the programme. Eliezer remains committed to expanding additional programmes of HHI, such as Sano y Feliz, which provides youth with knowledge about nutrition, mental health, and chronic disease prevention.
