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2015-JNJ-Citizenship-Sustainability-Report
2015-JNJ-Citizenship-Sustainability-Report
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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 />
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