“I believe the work we do, the commitments we make, and the way we conduct ourselves will raise the bar for what people expect from a healthcare company. It is my hope AstraZeneca, now and in the future, will help improve a healthcare system that lets us all live longer, healthier lives.”
- Tony Zook, President and CEO, AstraZeneca US
AstraZeneca is committed to business integrity and to doing business the right way with all the company’s stakeholders, including patients who use our medications, the healthcare community, shareholders, regulators, and employees.
This section describes some of the ways we seek to live up to this corporate responsibility.
In this section:
- Access to medicine: How AstraZeneca helps patients afford their medicines
- Patient safety: How we work to ensure the health of patients who take our medicines
- Sales and marketing: Our standards for marketing to consumers and healthcare practitioners
- Clinical trials: Our position on information disclosure
- Positive workplace: How we promote diversity, a positive work/life balance, and employee development
- Safety and health: Measures to promote the safety and health of our employees
- Environment: Our initiatives to improve the environment
- Corporate governance and compliance: How AstraZeneca is organized to ensure that we carry out our corporate responsibility commitments
For information about how AstraZeneca supports the community through donations, sponsorships, and other efforts, go to the Community support section of this website.
More detailed information on these issues is provided in the AstraZeneca 2007 US Corporate Responsibility Summary Report.
