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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:

  • The Sustainability strategy, built on a commitment to taking concrete actions at the intersection of environmental challenges and health, uniting our sustainability efforts around three key priorities: advancing sustainable and equitable access to healthcare, reducing the environmental impact of our products and activities across the value chain, and supporting the resilience of healthcare systems — with the shared goal of building a healthier and more resilient world for patients, the planet, and society.
  • The 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
  • Sanofi Foundation, our philanthropic arm that transforms young lives from vulnerability to possibility: empowering children & youth living with serious disease, building climate-resilient communities for the next generation and providing humanitarian aid and medicine donations to those in need.

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 developing comprehensive access to care programs in disease areas such as respiratory and diabetes to address the needs of vulnerable people with health conditions that may be worsened by environmental challenges. For our future innovations, we systematically consider the possibility of accelerating a broader patient access where needed and feasible, through Global Access plans started at early stages of R&D.
  • 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 volunteering 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.

How we Minimize Risks

  • We ensure our commitments to society deliver tangible impact with proper measurement and public reporting.
  • We value the trust that society places in Sanofi and pursue decisions at every level within our organization that aim to earn and preserve that trust, including by embedding sustainability into our leaders’ career development pathway.
  • We listen to the patients, our employees, business partners, and stakeholders that comprise the communities where we operate to support improved and ethical decision-making.
  • We recognize that some people are more vulnerable than others and that Sanofi has a responsibility to understand and address their needs.
  • We support patient health across the world’s diverse communities and do not discriminate against a community based on geographic, social, political or other factors.
  • We make decisions  that sustainably strengthen our long-term development and our ability to deliver on our commitments.
  • We acknowledge that environmental impact can affect communities globally and commit to assess and minimize the environmental impacts of our operations and products over their lifecycle.