Code of Conduct

Our code serves as the moral compass that guides us when chasing the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Our Code of Conduct is our company’s “constitution” and a pre-requisite, mandatory read for all Sanofi employees and those we do business with. It also represents a public commitment to our stakeholders – healthcare professionals, patients, scientists, investors – who are entitled to know what we as Sanofians value and how we are playing to win with integrity.

Paul Hudson

Chief Executive Officer

We work in an industry whose purpose is to innovate to save people’s lives and preserve public health. Such a unique purpose comes with heightened expectations. Responsible innovation is therefore at the heart of everything we do and this Code of Conduct supports us along that journey.

Julien Durand

Chief Ethics & Business Integrity Officer

Sanofi Culture and Strategy

We are one Sanofi, a modern healthcare company bringing together dedicated, talented people and innovative science to transform the practice of medicine. Today, we are driven by a unifying purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We share a common ambition: turning the impossible into the possible for millions of people around the world.

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Ethics and Risk culture

To chase the miracles of science, we need a strong moral compass. A bold and noble purpose like ours requires a culture that drives and is driven by ethics and business integrity. It means all of us bring our best ethical selves to work so that we make the right decisions for the people we serve.

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Championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Sanofi, we want to reflect the diversity of our communities, unleashing our whole selves every day to transform the practice of medicine. We want to make an impact in the world through who we are, what we do, and the way we do it, and we recognize that the only way to really do this is to do it together and by being “All In”.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are integral to Sanofi’s Play to Win strategy. They help us reinvent how we work and drive our cultural transformation through:

Building Representative Leadership: We must build leadership teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve so we can leverage a wider range of perspectives and be more fully connected to our patient, employee, customer, and stakeholder needs.
Creating a Work Environment where we can bring the best of our whole selves: Through diversity, equity and inclusion, our employees must feel able to unleash their full potential so we can foster creativity and innovation.
Engaging With Our Diverse Communities: to change the practice of medicine, we must be citizens of the world, advocating for inclusion and diversity with our external stakeholders.

How we Maximize Opportunities

By raising awareness and deepening understanding. We address diversity, equity, and inclusion in our own communication, and catalyze conversations at all levels to drive greater equity of gender, culture and origins, LGBTQ+, generations, and ability.
By enhancing creativity and innovation. We build teams that reflect the diversity of our employees, as we believe combining the distinct identities of our people and business partners is a source of strength and a key ingredient of our success.
By making sure our workplaces are accessible. We ensure accessibility on our sites, provide inclusive technologies, and promote ways of working that will allow all employees to be fully productive.
By committing to better represent the diversity of patients in our clinical trials.
By increasing the inclusion of historically under-represented groups in our sourcing processes through Sanofi’s supplier diversity program

How we Minimize Risks

We have zero tolerance for harassment (e.g. physical, sexual, psychological, verbal, or of any other form) and discrimination on the basis of: gender, identity, age, origin, religion, race, heritage, sexual orientation, physical appearance, health disability, trade union activity, political opinions, nationality, family situation or on any other grounds.
We prohibit any conduct that may negatively affect a person’s dignity.
We avoid homogeneity by providing employees with the support they need to guarantee that their voices are heard.

Respecting People, Fostering Psychological Safety and Wellbeing

As our purpose is to improve people’s lives, we are committed to upholding respect for every individual around the world. This includes the physical and psychological health, safety, and wellbeing of Sanofians as well as our respect for human rights and freedoms, labor rights, and decent work among all people.

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Respecting People, Fostering Psychological Safety and Wellbeing

As our purpose is to improve people’s lives, we are committed to upholding respect for every individual around the world. This includes the physical and psychological health, safety, and wellbeing of Sanofians as well as our respect for human rights and freedoms, labor rights, and decent work among all people.

Within Sanofi, we create an environment where everyone can feel safe and supported to bring their whole self to work. This enables innovation and creativity, so we can pursue progress for the people we serve.

We want every Sanofian to have a purposeful experience. That’s why we make physical and psychological health, safety, and wellbeing a priority. Our “All Well” approach includes:

Healthy minds: supporting emotional and mental wellbeing;
Healthy working culture: building a culture that is respectful, supportive and inclusive at all levels;
Healthy financials: helping each of us manage and stay in control of our finances at all stages of life; and
Healthy body: supporting good physical health, focusing on prevention and quality healthcare

We understand that for Sanofians to embrace Play to Win behaviors, we need to:

secure a foundation of physical and psychological health and safety;
build mutual and interpersonal trust; and
enable our employees to feel safe, speak-up, and take thoughtful risks.

These goals align with our Organizational Justice principles on speaking up and reporting concerns to promote a safe, positive working environment.

We extend our respect to all people through our commitment to the United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the International Labour Organization (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work alongside ILO Fundamental Conventions.

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

We prevent psycho-social risks through various initiatives. These include awareness programs, diagnostic tools to detect early manifestations as well as mental health education and a 24/7 global Employee Assistance support hotline.
We provide support to minimize the impact and risk of unfortunate life events. We provide our employees with tools and resources to help them stay in control of and plan for their future.
We facilitate a culture of speaking up without fear of retaliation. Our people should feel confident in the knowledge that a raised concern will be investigated and, if warranted, followed by actions that treat all concerned fairly and justly, in line with our organizational justice principles.
We respect internationally recognized human rights and freedoms, labor rights and decent work, seeking to advance them wherever we can.

Championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Sanofi, we want to reflect the diversity of our communities, unleashing our whole selves every day to transform the practice of medicine. We want to make an impact in the world through who we are, what we do, and the way we do it, and we recognize that the only way to really do this is to do it together and by being “All In”.

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Safeguarding Data Privacy and Protecting Information

Sanofi is committed to data privacy and information security at every level of our organization for the benefit of patients, our employees, and stakeholders and to ensure full compliance with regulatory obligations.

Digital transformation and data processing capabilities are strengthening how Sanofi interacts with people and organizations to achieve our purpose. Processing data, from collection to storage, is now a key component of our relationship with patients, healthcare professionals, members of the scientific community, customers and users of our products and services, and our employees and business partners. To safeguard data privacy, we have implemented a Global Privacy Governance Framework that ensures optimal protection of personal data. We have also adopted a Cybersecurity and Security Framework to maintain the security and confidentiality of our information technology systems, assets, information, and databases.

How we Maximize Opportunities

By implementing and constantly enhancing best practices in data privacy and information security, Sanofi builds trust in and provides legal certainty for our vital data and sensitive information ecosystem.
By providing expertise, guidance and support to our employees and stakeholders, we help them make the right decisions when collecting, processing, and sharing personal data, in line with our values.
By applying a risk-based approach in designing proportionate controls to maintain operational efficiency while meeting the privacy expectations of patients, individuals and regulators.
By enabling Sanofi’s digital strategy through providing innovative tools and guidance, we implement privacy-by-design and data security as of the initial stages of each project.
By developing a pro-active approach to data privacy, we align our objectives and foster confidence with data protection authorities and other regulatory bodies.

How we Minimize Risks

We recognize the variations of regulations in the countries where we operate and we implement a Global Privacy Governance Framework and Information Protection policies, consisting of standards, procedures, templates and tools designed to ensure compliance with applicable privacy laws and security standards.
We prevent security events through specific procedures as well as physical, logical, organizational, and technical measures and dedicated programs to address insider-risk and external threats.
We actively detect and manage security and privacy events such as cyberattacks, personal data breaches and data subject rights requests, ensuring relevant parties are informed and supported.
We ensure each project involving personal data applies privacy-by-design and transparency principles through a step-by-step compliance roadmap.
We conduct due diligence and active monitoring to help ensure Sanofi only works with reliable business partners when transferring personal data inside or outside the company while ensuring that adequate contractual measures are implemented to safeguard all transfers.
We appoint a network of privacy officers and champions across Sanofi to provide practical expertise and support where and when it matters and to coordinate with our stakeholders.
We increase general awareness through education and communication to reinforce our culture of privacy and information protection, making us more resilient to security threats.

Competing Freely and Fairly

Sanofi strives to deliver better outcomes for patients, communities, and stakeholders by providing groundbreaking therapies at the right time and for the right reasons. We support a level playing field in which companies freely and fairly chase the miracles of science without undue advantage.

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Fighting Bribery and Corruption

Sanofi does not tolerate any form of bribery or abuse of power for personal gain, both among our employees and business partners, as well as among stakeholders involved in chasing the miracles of science to improve patients’ lives.

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Utilizing Social Media and Communicating Responsibly

At Sanofi, we ensure that our stakeholders can hear from and engage with us, including through social media and digital platforms. We recognize this requires us to communicate responsibly and are fully committed to doing so.

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Maintaining Financial Integrity

We are committed to the integrity of Sanofi’s financial activities to realize our purpose, ensuring our role as a trusted partner in serving public health needs and expanding health innovation. Financial integrity is vital to protect the patients we serve as well as our employees, stakeholders, and the financial markets.

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Commercialization of Products and Services

Sanofi is committed to the sustainable and long-term success of our company aligned with our strategy. In order to uphold our purpose and ambition, we work with all stakeholders to help ensure our commercialization approach promotes patient and societal welfare, complies with laws and regulations, and operates ethically and with integrity.

We develop innovative products and services that help to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases, thus improving people’s lives. Across the entire product lifecycle, we are committed to high ethical standards, earning patients’ and stakeholders’ trust. Chasing the miracles of science to improve people’s lives requires a life sciences ecosystem that rewards innovation and ensures that all patients who need our products and services have access to them. We are committed to bringing forward new products and services with a sense of urgency and continuously improving those products and services as well as our business processes.

How we Maximize Opportunities

By pursuing a commercialization approach that drives vital resources towards meeting underserved health needs, improving research and development, strengthening supply chain resilience, and expanding access for current and future patient welfare.
By working with diverse stakeholders in order to commercialize the very best products and services possible, so that we maximize benefits for patients.

How we Minimize Risks

We take a commercial approach for new products which is rooted in our Global Access and Pricing Principles, which take into account four criteria:
- overall added value of the products
- availability or anticipated availability of similar treatments
- ability of countries to afford new medicines
- unique factors specific to the medicine or vaccine at the time of launch
We strive for rapid, broad and equitable access to our products and services, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay.
We are transparent in our commercialization approach, including in such areas as the information we provide about our products and the disease states they impact, the data we collect and our product supply.
We promote our products and services ethically, with integrity and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. We design communications about our products and services to be accurate, balanced, and not misleading.

Preserving Benefit-Risk Balance

Sanofi is committed to transparent communication about its products, while ensuring information about the efficacy, safety profile and services are routinely updated.

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Accelerating Research and Development with Scientific Integrity

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Sustaining Good Operating Practices

At Sanofi we manufacture and distribute products of the highest quality worldwide to improve people’s lives.

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Transforming Medicine through Digital Health

Sanofi is leveraging technology to transform the practice of medicine and create a safe and ethics-by-design environment for digital solutions.

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Engaging Business Partners

How we Maximize Opportunities

By only engaging with suppliers who adhere to our Code of Conduct, we strengthen our performance, mitigate potential disruptions, and foster an ethical health ecosystem that benefits patients.
By supporting Sanofi’s employees so they can confidently collaborate with our business partners with an understanding of shared values and standards of conduct.
By fostering the success of small and medium-sized business partners who share our values and standards of conduct, supporting their growth alongside Sanofi.
By embracing business partners that are as diverse as the patients and communities we serve, fostering an equitable and inclusive health ecosystem that supports Sanofi’s growth and creativity.
By coordinating with our industry peers and trade associations to strengthen ethical principles among shared business partners, we foster higher standards across our business sector.

How we Minimize Risks

Committing to Society

Our approach to social impact is to strengthen, reaffirm, and amplify our commitment to society and the communities we serve. Our social impact is enabled by three efforts:

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Interacting with Stakeholders

Sanofi is committed to maintaining patient focus as well as acting with integrity, respect, legitimate intent, transparency, and accountability when interacting with stakeholders.

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Competing Freely and Fairly

Sanofi strives to deliver better outcomes for patients, communities, and stakeholders by providing groundbreaking therapies at the right time and for the right reasons. We support a level playing field in which companies freely and fairly chase the miracles of science without undue advantage.

Sanofi supports laws promoting fair competition and trade practice, as well as a vital ecosystem of innovation. We comply with all these laws wherever we do business and never attain competitive advantage through unethical or illegal business practices. This includes our commitment to never engage or appear to engage in the disparaging of our competitors, the imposition of restrictions on suppliers or customers, or an abuse of a dominant position in the market through improper agreements or any sort of collusion with competitors.

How we Maximize Opportunities

By competing freely and fairly, Sanofi upholds innovation, drives quality, and expands choice for patients, improving health outcomes and meeting the expectations of our stakeholders and society as a whole.
By supporting and advocating for a level playing field, Sanofi helps the best treatments reach the patients who need them while supporting the sustainability of our industry.
By advocating for and protecting intellectual property rights that are vital to upholding an ecosystem that rewards investment in innovation. Sanofi also recognizes that any dominant market position that results from such rights be respected by healthcare regulators through facilitating patient access.
By partnering with diverse stakeholders, as well as our trade association partners and conference organizers to uphold free and fair competition.

How we Minimize Risks

We rely on a strong network of experts around the world to ensure compliance with all laws and regulations upholding free and fair competition, and apply our ethical principles where laws may fall short to support a level playing field.
We prohibit our employees and business partners from pursuing activities with our competitors, suppliers, or customers that would result in Sanofi gaining an undue advantage.

Safeguarding Data Privacy and Protecting Information

Sanofi is committed to data privacy and information security at every level of our organization for the benefit of patients, our employees, and stakeholders and to ensure full compliance with regulatory obligations.

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Fighting Bribery and Corruption

Sanofi does not tolerate any form of bribery or abuse of power for personal gain, both among our employees and business partners, as well as among stakeholders involved in chasing the miracles of science to improve patients’ lives.

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Utilizing Social Media and Communicating Responsibly

At Sanofi, we ensure that our stakeholders can hear from and engage with us, including through social media and digital platforms. We recognize this requires us to communicate responsibly and are fully committed to doing so.

Read more
Maintaining Financial Integrity

We are committed to the integrity of Sanofi’s financial activities to realize our purpose, ensuring our role as a trusted partner in serving public health needs and expanding health innovation. Financial integrity is vital to protect the patients we serve as well as our employees, stakeholders, and the financial markets.

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Fighting Bribery and Corruption

Sanofi does not tolerate any form of bribery or abuse of power for personal gain, both among our employees and business partners, as well as among stakeholders involved in chasing the miracles of science to improve patients’ lives.

Such acts of bribery and corruption include providing (or receiving) anything of value to (or from) any person for the purpose of influencing any behavior or decision, particularly healthcare professionals, patient organizations, government officials, and state organizations. Corruption harms patients, erodes trust in healthcare, and can curtail investment in medicines. Corruption also fosters health inequities and deters economic development, human rights, and environmental sustainability. Our intolerance for any kind of corruption drives Sanofi to cultivate a robust culture of integrity. It also motivates us to fight corruption outside our organization wherever it may hinder our purpose.

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

We prohibit our employees or business partners from engaging in any act or perceived act of bribery and corruption. We require them to report any potential act of bribery and corruption while routinely training our employees to help identify and prevent such acts.
We prohibit facilitating payments, even when legally permitted.
We prohibit employees giving or receiving gifts from third parties.
We safeguard processes for and eliminate barriers to an employee or business partner’s ability to raise and report bribery or corruption concerns confidentially with protections against retaliation.
We support a robust ethics and compliance function that can execute its responsibilities independently and has direct access to executive leadership.
We utilize our experienced experts around the world to ensure adherence to all anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws and regulations, as well as to apply our ethical principles where laws may fall short of upholding the highest standards of business integrity.
We conduct risk-based anti-bribery due diligence on our business partners, including suppliers, customers, and third-party sales and marketing intermediaries, before engaging them and periodically during our partnering. Any potential issue raised through this monitoring is reviewed and assessed in order to evaluate the need for a risk mitigation plan, including termination if required.

Safeguarding Data Privacy and Protecting Information

Sanofi is committed to data privacy and information security at every level of our organization for the benefit of patients, our employees, and stakeholders and to ensure full compliance with regulatory obligations.

Read more
Competing Freely and Fairly

Sanofi strives to deliver better outcomes for patients, communities, and stakeholders by providing groundbreaking therapies at the right time and for the right reasons. We support a level playing field in which companies freely and fairly chase the miracles of science without undue advantage.

Read more
Utilizing Social Media and Communicating Responsibly

At Sanofi, we ensure that our stakeholders can hear from and engage with us, including through social media and digital platforms. We recognize this requires us to communicate responsibly and are fully committed to doing so.

Read more
Maintaining Financial Integrity

We are committed to the integrity of Sanofi’s financial activities to realize our purpose, ensuring our role as a trusted partner in serving public health needs and expanding health innovation. Financial integrity is vital to protect the patients we serve as well as our employees, stakeholders, and the financial markets.

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Protecting the Environment

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Sanofi’s immediate and long-term success requires decisive leadership to protect our planet and the natural air, land, and water environment that humanity depends on.

At Sanofi, our dedication to improving people’s lives goes beyond innovations in healthcare. As a global organization we also bear great responsibility to take actions that mitigate the consequences of climate change on human health today and for future generations, including food and water shortages, reduced air quality, and conditions that support the spread of diseases and allergies. These actions include minimizing the environmental impact of our products and activities as well as supporting others in similar efforts. We are also strengthening our own resilience in the face of environmental changes.

How we Maximize Opportunities

By aligning every decision we make with the expectations of the world’s patients, our employees and stakeholders, including investors and governments, to protect the environment.
By building the road to carbon neutrality by 2030, reducing emissions across our full value chain to the maximum by 2045, and finally offsetting what cannot be reduced, we will contribute to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
By limiting our environmental footprint and adopting circular solutions that conserve energy and reduce waste, we support the conservation and sustainability of our planet’s finite air, land, and water resources.
By improving the environmental profile of our products and services, ensuring their sustainability as the world mobilizes to address climate change and encouraging others within our sector to take similar action.
By reducing the negative impact of climate change on human health, supporting the prevention of premature death; air pollution-related illnesses such as respiratory infections, heart diseases, and lung cancers; consumption or contact with contaminated water that causes gastrointestinal illness and allergies; and climate-sensitive health outcomes such as extreme heat events, floods, droughts, and fires.
By supporting and developing employees and business partners who care and act for the well-being of the planet and serving as an enterprise with leading environmental principles.
By assessing climate change-related opportunities for our business, to develop robust strategies unlocking transition potentialities.

How we Minimize Risks

We prioritize environmentally conscious decision-making throughout all levels of the organization and incentivize behavior consciously choosing to protect the environment.
We prevent contamination and damage to the environment through the implementation of policies and practices that reflect our values as an ecologically responsible company.
We prevent diseases associated with environmental contamination through actions within and outside Sanofi that have a positive impact on society and our diverse communities.
We make decisions that prioritize our values in environmental protection and sustainability.
We reduce reputational risk and loss of stakeholder confidence by having an unquestionable and transparent commitment to caring for the environment, which we reflect in clear and concise actions that we disclose publicly with truthful and complete information.
We prioritize environmental protection in the selection of our business partners.
We assess climate change-related risks on our operations and value chain, to develop robust mitigation strategies.

Committing to Society

Our approach to social impact is to strengthen, reaffirm, and amplify our commitment to society and the communities we serve. Our social impact is enabled by three efforts:

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Committing to Society

Our approach to social impact is to strengthen, reaffirm, and amplify our commitment to society and the communities we serve. Our social impact is enabled by three efforts:

Corporate Social Responsibility, a company-wide strategy aligned to our long-term business strategy, designed to make a difference that can be scaled and delivering positive impact that can be sustained over time. Every part of the organization has a role to play and makes a contribution with flagship initiatives spread across the company’s value chain, from R&D to manufacturing to commercial operations
Global Health Unit (GHU), a non-profit enterprise that makes essential Sanofi products available in low- and middle-income countries as well as supports local entrepreneurs scale up healthcare capacity; and
Foundation S – The Sanofi Collective, our “Think and Do Tank” philanthropic arm that improves the lives of vulnerable populations by catalyzing community–based solutions around childhood cancer, climate action and health resilience, neglected tropical diseases, and responding to humanitarian crises by donating medicines and offering emergency aid.

How we Maximize Opportunities

By recognizing that our purpose includes a fundamental commitment to all our stakeholders to improve people’s health, to deliver value to customers, to invest in our employees, to deal fairly and ethically with our suppliers, to support the communities in which we work, and to generate long-term value for shareholders.
By increasing access to and affordability of our products and services, including through patient programs and other initiatives, we strengthen communities and their healthcare systems, particularly for the most vulnerable.
By proactively acting for the most vulnerable and underrepresented, we advance solutions that otherwise might not have been possible, including research for unmet needs.
By empowering our employees to perform local volunteer activities, we strengthen communities where we both live and work.
By signing up to the United Nations Global Compact, we are committed to upholding its principles for sustainable and socially responsible practices, publicly reporting on our implementation efforts since 2003.

Code of Conduct

Sanofi Culture and Strategy

Ethics and Risk culture

Maximize opportunities & minimize risks

Championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Respecting People, Fostering Psychological Safety and Wellbeing

Safeguarding Data Privacy and Protecting Information

Commercialization of Products and Services

Engaging Business Partners

Competing Freely and Fairly

Fighting Bribery and Corruption

Protecting the Environment

Committing to Society

Utilizing Social Media and Communicating Responsibly

Preserving Benefit-Risk Balance

Accelerating Research and Development with Scientific Integrity

Interacting with Stakeholders

Maintaining Financial Integrity

Sustaining Good Operating Practices

Transforming Medicine through Digital Health

Championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

Respecting People, Fostering Psychological Safety and Wellbeing

Respecting People, Fostering Psychological Safety and Wellbeing

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

Championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Safeguarding Data Privacy and Protecting Information

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

Competing Freely and Fairly

Fighting Bribery and Corruption

Utilizing Social Media and Communicating Responsibly

Maintaining Financial Integrity

Commercialization of Products and Services

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

Preserving Benefit-Risk Balance

Accelerating Research and Development with Scientific Integrity

Sustaining Good Operating Practices

Transforming Medicine through Digital Health

Engaging Business Partners

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

Committing to Society

Interacting with Stakeholders

Competing Freely and Fairly

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

Safeguarding Data Privacy and Protecting Information

Fighting Bribery and Corruption

Utilizing Social Media and Communicating Responsibly

Maintaining Financial Integrity

Fighting Bribery and Corruption

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

Safeguarding Data Privacy and Protecting Information

Competing Freely and Fairly

Utilizing Social Media and Communicating Responsibly

Maintaining Financial Integrity

Protecting the Environment

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

Committing to Society

Committing to Society

How we Maximize Opportunities