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.

The safety of patients is fundamental to our purpose of improving people’s lives. This starts with protecting those who participate in the clinical trials we sponsor and extends to product safety throughout our manufacturing operations and quality of supply. We guarantee a positive benefit-risk balance of our products. In addition, we safeguard patient privacy, uphold the integrity of patient data, provide information to ensure safe and effective use of our products and services, and continuously monitor and report adverse events. As Sanofi’s products and services evolve and bring even greater opportunities to improve patient health, we will remain steadfast in our commitment to the preservation of patient safety in close collaboration with our stakeholders.

How we Maximize Opportunities

By prioritizing patient safety, Sanofi improves health outcomes, enhances patient confidence in healthcare, and earns vital trust with stakeholders.
By preserving a positive benefit-risk balance for all our products throughout their product lifecycle, Sanofi strengthens its patient-centered approach and is better prepared to address future safety needs, including in promising areas such as gene editing and cell therapy.

How we Minimize Risks

We conform our products and services to stringent standards of quality, safety, efficacy, and risk/benefit analysis, as determined by regulatory authorities wherever we operate.
We secure evidence that our products and services have acceptable safety profiles before they are tested on human research participants.
We provide up-to-date relevant safety and efficacy information to support the decisions of government authorities, investigating sites, and ethics committees in approving our clinical research
We employ a patient-centered informed consent process where prospective clinical trial participants and/or their caregivers understand potential safety risks prior to deciding to voluntarily participate.
We transparently communicate and routinely update information about the safety and efficacy of our products and services throughout their lifecycle.
We support the education of the scientific and medical community by providing accurate, timely, and balanced information about our products and services to ensure their proper use.
We ensure that responses to medical information requests from patients and healthcare professionals are timely, truthful, evidence-based and scientifically balanced to support the informed and appropriate use of Sanofi’s products.
We protect patient privacy and inform patients about how we use their personal data, all in full compliance with applicable laws.
We swiftly report adverse events or adverse reactions to Sanofi’s products to regulatory authorities in accordance with our pharmacovigilance requirements.

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.

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Accelerating Research and Development with Scientific Integrity

At Sanofi, we are committed to conducting our research and development activities with integrity and providing relevant information transparently to facilitate the proper use of our products.

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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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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.

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

We are building psychological health and safety at every level of our organization through learning and development opportunities to increase engagement, performance and the motivation to take thoughtful risks to bring innovative solutions.
We are encouraging more feedback and delivering more impact by measuring and tracking levels of psychological safety through annual surveys.
We support physical wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle through various initiatives such as Move Often, Eat Well, Stay Healthy, and Sanofi’s quality healthcare programs, offering many practical tools, awareness campaigns and prevention programs.
Our Employee Assistance Program includes advice on psychological, financial, and legal topics, ensuring our people always have somewhere to turn to should they struggle in their personal or professional lives.
We are fostering a healthy working culture by implementing a working environment where our people feel empowered to perform, safe to raise their voice, and supported, whoever and wherever they are, through programs such as Gender-Neutral Parental Leave.
By supporting the education of our employees, business partners, and stakeholders as well as the dissemination of accurate and routine information to patients and stakeholders through diverse channels, we advance innovation and scientific knowledge and understanding while empowering individuals to improve human health.

Preserving Benefit-Risk Balance

How we Maximize Opportunities

How we Minimize Risks

Commercialization of Products and Services

Accelerating Research and Development with Scientific 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