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Letter from<br />

Our Chairman<br />

& CEO<br />

For 130 years Johnson & Johnson<br />

has been helping people everywhere<br />

live longer, healthier and happier lives.<br />

Written nearly 75 years ago,<br />

Our Credo guides everything we do<br />

with a strong sense of responsibility,<br />

inspiration and a clear measure of<br />

accountability. Our Credo outlines our<br />

commitments to the people, places<br />

and communities we touch every day<br />

with our products and solutions, and<br />

informs our strategic approach to our<br />

Citizenship & Sustainability efforts.<br />

At Johnson & Johnson, we aspire to improve health<br />

in all we do, and everywhere we go. Since the<br />

launch of our Healthy Future 2015 goals in 2010<br />

we have worked to advance global health; steward<br />

a healthy environment; increase sustainability<br />

among our suppliers; foster the most engaged,<br />

health-conscious and safe employees in the<br />

world; advance community wellness; enhance<br />

outcome measurement in philanthropy; and<br />

increase transparency and collaboration. We met<br />

most of our goals and, in so doing, helped even<br />

more people and deepened our relationships with<br />

our stakeholders. Our performance is presented<br />

in this report and highlighted in Successes and<br />

Opportunities.<br />

Also in 2015, we expanded the ways we<br />

think about health and sought new ways to make<br />

everyone, everywhere, healthier as we finalized<br />

our new Citizenship & Sustainability 2020 Goals,<br />

described in detail within this report. Our Citizenship<br />

& Sustainability 2020 Goals continue our legacy of<br />

work to advance healthier societies and will help<br />

more people live healthier lives through the ideas we<br />

generate, products we make, and good habits and<br />

practices we create. These new goals have three key<br />

focus areas:<br />

• <strong>People</strong>: We will help people be healthier by<br />

providing better access and care in more places<br />

around the world.<br />

• <strong>Places</strong>: We will make the places we live, work<br />

and play healthier by using fewer and smarter<br />

resources.<br />

• <strong>Practices</strong>: We will team up with partners and<br />

employees to further advance our culture of<br />

health and well-being.<br />

We believe we can use our expertise, influence,<br />

global reach and partnerships to help make this<br />

world a healthier, better place. We are acutely aware<br />

of the dramatically changing global healthcare<br />

market. Populations of developed nations are<br />

aging rapidly and intractable diseases are taking<br />

hold in some developing countries, increasing<br />

healthcare costs; middle classes are expanding<br />

in many developing nations, putting pressure on<br />

existing healthcare infrastructure and capacity; and<br />

patients are becoming increasingly involved in their<br />

own healthcare decisions, necessitating a holistic<br />

approach to meeting their needs by integrating<br />

wellness solutions, innovative new medicines and<br />

advanced technologies.<br />

We believe the most important contribution we<br />

can make to the dynamic challenges we are facing<br />

is innovation—innovation in products and solutions,<br />

services, processes and practices. The promise of<br />

innovation in health care is great, but it comes with<br />

the need for forward-focused investment in R&D,<br />

a holistic approach to evolving global healthcare<br />

markets and bold future-facing strategies that build<br />

upon our proven strategic principles.<br />

In developing our new Citizenship &<br />

Sustainability 2020 Goals we have broadened<br />

our view to consider not just the challenges of the<br />

business we are in, but of the world in which we<br />

operate. Global trends that could impact our ability<br />

to help people and the environment be healthier<br />

include: population growth, poverty and inequality,<br />

rising global instability, climate change, water<br />

and resource scarcity, human rights issues, and<br />

pressures to increase transparency.<br />

These and many other global challenges are<br />

recognized within the UN Sustainable Development<br />

Goals (SDGs) ratified in late 2015. The SDGs provide<br />

a comprehensive framework for governments,<br />

NGOs, private sector and other entities to consider<br />

in their strategic plans moving forward. Later in 2016<br />

we will provide a perspective on the role we can play<br />

in addressing the SDGs.<br />

As the world’s largest, broadly based healthcare<br />

company, guided as we are by Our Credo, we are<br />

committed to fulfill our unique opportunity to help<br />

billions of people live longer, healthier, happier lives<br />

today, and for generations to come.<br />

Sincerely,<br />

Alex Gorsky<br />

Chairman of the Board of Directors and<br />

Chief Executive Officer<br />

2015 Citizenship & Sustainability Report 4

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