Healthcare and Human Rights Forum (HCHRF)

Our Mission

Develop a human rights due diligence approach to the right to health and identify opportunities to collaborate to address existing barriers to affordability, availability, discrimination, and unmet patient needs.

Create a space for healthcare companies’ human rights leads to share best practices, challenges, and experiences.

Our Strategy for Impact

HCHRF gathers healthcare companies to:

• Create and adopt common tools and approaches for human rights due diligence on the right to health
• Share knowledge, practical guidance, challenges, solutions, and lessons to prepare for existing and upcoming human rights due diligence regulatory requirements
• Conduct internal and external stakeholder engagement on salient industry issues to inform human rights due diligence efforts

Impacts: SDG 3, SDG 9

How We Work

• HCHRF is a global network of healthcare companies, including pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare companies, that collectively steers the initiative’s priority activities. Participants include human rights leads at global healthcare companies and other relevant functions with oversight of human rights due diligence strategy and programs.
• The group gathers regular input from participants. Opportunities for sharing both unique and common challenges help to ensure that all member companies benefit from participation.
• HCHRF participants meet four times a year (two in-person and two virtual gatherings). Meetings include a mix of plenary discussions and practical workshops to share best practices and develop practical tools and guidance.