Global health and health security
We have a unique and important role to play in improving health for patients around the world and helping the world to prepare for future health security challenges. Actions on these will support growth, build trust with our stakeholders, help us attract and retain outstanding people, reduce risk and enable delivery of positive social impact.
Our ambition
We have a unique and important role to play in improving health for patients around the world and helping the world prepare for future health security challenges. Actions on these will support growth, build trust with our stakeholders, help us attract and retain outstanding people, reduce risk and enable delivery of positive social impact.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world live with unmet health needs. Using our science, our partnerships, and the knowledge we’ve gained from addressing the world’s biggest health challenges, we want to help change this.
Our commitment to improving our global health impact through R&D for infectious diseases and access to medicines and vaccines has been recognised in the Access to Medicine Index, where we have ranked number one in all eight waves since its inception.
Our ambition is contingent on reaching people all around the globe with the products they need to thrive and prosper, and by helping the global community to better prepare for emerging health security threats and challenges.
How we’re getting Ahead Together for global health
We have a dedicated Global Health team of more than 200 outstanding people. In 2022, with ViiV Healthcare, we announced an investment of £1 billion over 10 years to accelerate global health R&D. By the end of 2025, we’d invested 46% of the £1 billion we committed in 2022 to accelerate R&D for Global Health. We had also progressed 7 Global Health pipeline assets to address WHO priority diseases, including ones exacerbated by changing climate conditions and those that disproportionately affect people in lower income countries.
Preparing for future health challenges
We are using our scientific know-how and partnerships to help the world better prepare for future health challenges, such as disease outbreaks with pandemic potential and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Without action on AMR 10 million people could die from drug-resistant infections every year by 2050. That’s why we have more than 30 R&D projects including medicines and vaccines relevant to AMR, with 17 targeting pathogens deemed ‘critical’ (by WHO) and/or ‘urgent’ by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We’re also working with governments, NGOs and other stakeholders to bolster future pandemic responses, strengthen efforts to get ahead of AMR and build more resilient healthcare systems able to cope with health security challenges.
