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How are we responding to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Around the world, our objectives remain the same — to protect the safety of our employees and to produce and supply our essential medicines and vaccines for those who need them. That is our responsibility as a company, and we factor that responsibility into every decision we make.

Read about our COVID-19 response

a medical lab technician in full protective gear

“Our industry is facing some challenging headwinds, but our commitment to corporate responsibility will not waiver.”

Kenneth C. Frazier

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Read letter from our CEO

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Progress Report

Our approach to corporate responsibility is about the health, economic, social and environmental impact we have on individuals and communities around the world.

Download our ESG Progress Report (PDF)

Link to the Corporate Responsibility Materiality page.

Our most important topics

Understanding and prioritizing the corporate responsibility (CR) issues that matter most to our business and stakeholders enables us to focus on the right issues and report on them effectively and transparently.

Reporting frameworks

As part of our commitment to being transparent about our corporate responsibility initiatives, including our business activities and operations, we publish an annual corporate responsibility report.

Performance data

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as baseline measurements for our corporate responsibility activities, which are measured globally unless otherwise noted, and cover all of our business units with the exception of joint ventures.

We run to, not from, the world’s biggest health challenges

From finding solutions for some of the world’s most debilitating diseases, to getting our medicines and vaccines to those in need and building more effective health systems, we are always on a mission to create a better world.