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Healthcare Working Group

Improving the industry’s understanding and practice in corporate responsibility, with a focus on access to healthcare

Overview

Introduction

Established in 1999, BSR’s Healthcare Working Group (HCWG) serves as a forum for companies to discuss societal issues faced by the healthcare sector, with a view to maximizing the scalability, sustainability, and impact of their responses.

HCWG participants include senior company representatives from functions including CSR, communications, investor relations, market access, public and governmental affairs, and sales and marketing.

This group provides a forum for precompetitive collaboration on key sustainable business issues, and it also offers companies the opportunity to share their experiences and best practices in an environment that promotes learning and respects confidentiality.

Our Mission

  • Elevated ambition levels for companies driving progress on key CSR issues for the sector
  • Strong and sustainable approaches to expanding access to healthcare
  • Demonstration of industry’s commitment to addressing barriers that impact access to healthcare 

Our Accomplishments

  • We launched the Guiding Principles on Access to Healthcare (GPAH), an industry-wide framework for reducing the global burden of disease and improving global health outcomes
  • The GPAH have been signed by the CEOs of 13 major healthcare companies with global leadership in pharmaceuticals, vaccines, diagnostics, and other medical technology 

Guiding Principles on Access to Healthcare

In collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders, HCWG members have developed industry-wide principles to frame and describe the industry’s approach to reducing the global burden of disease and improving global health outcomes. The principles have been signed by the CEOs of 13 major healthcare companies.

For more information, visit gpah.bsr.org. 

Why Join?

  1. Collaborate with peers working across the global healthcare sector
  2. Amplify your company’s voice in stakeholder discussions with influential NGOs and ratings agencies
  3. Keep abreast of emerging issues facing the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries
  4. Learn from industry, corporate responsibility, and other experts on topics such as access to medicine, human rights, and the environment 

Healthcare Working Group Companies

  • Abbott
  • AbbVie
  • Astellas
  • Biogen
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Celgene Corporation
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Merck & Co., Inc.
  • Merck KGaA
  • Novartis
  • Novo Nordisk A/S
  • Pfizer Inc.
  • Roche Holding AG
  • Sanofi
  • Shire Pharmaceuticals
  • Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.
  • Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

Our Insights

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Healthcare Working Group

Reports

Advancing Access-to-Healthcare Metrics

This working paper helps healthcare companies improve measurement and reporting on access-to-healthcare programs, a framework that other sectors can replicate to focus more strategically on impact metrics.

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Healthcare Working Group

Reports

The Guiding Principles on Access to Healthcare: From Aspiration to Action

A year after the CEOs of 13 major healthcare companies signed the Guiding Principles on Access to Healthcare, this report provides an overview of the approaches undertaken by signatory companies to advance access to healthcare.

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Healthcare Working Group

Blog

Is Collaboration the Way Forward for the Pharmaceutical Industry?

While working nearly a decade for a pharmaceutical think tank, I witnessed how great things can be accomplished when the barriers of competition fall. In my experience, collectively finding solutions not only generates recommendations, guidelines and best practices, it also fosters new models and pushes entire sectors towards faster progress. And today, faster progress is what we need to deliver safer, more affordable, and more effective medicine to larger populations.

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Healthcare Working Group

Blog

Three Tesla-Inspired Questions for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Tesla Motors' leadership on open-source patents can inform the pharmaceutical industry's approach to transparency, an issue of increasing concern to regulators and stakeholders.

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Meet the Team

Byron Austin

Byron Austin

Manager

New York

Laura Gitman

Laura Gitman

Senior Vice President

New York

Dorje Mundle

Dorje Mundle

Director, Healthcare

Paris

Cecile Oger

Cecile Oger

Associate Director

Paris

Aude Ucla

Aude Ucla

Manager

Paris

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Contact the Healthcare Working Group team with any questions.

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About Us

BSR is a global nonprofit organization that works with its network of more than 250 member companies and other partners to build a just and sustainable world. From its offices in Asia, Europe, and North America, BSR develops sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration. Learn more about BSR’s 25 years of leadership in sustainability.

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