At GSK, we foster an inclusive environment that embraces and celebrates different perspectives and experiences, allowing everyone to be themselves so we can all perform at our best for patients. We hold ourselves and each other accountable, ensuring that respect and inclusivity are at the heart of our company culture.
Inclusion
We embrace inclusion across our science, access to medicine and vaccines and our people and culture.
To be a successful business and deliver positive health impact at scale, we must meet patients’ needs with research that includes those impacted by the disease under study, attract and retain the best talent regardless of background, and support all GSK people to thrive.
We believe in the power of an inclusive culture and differing perspectives and experiences to unlock the full potential of the company. This helps attract and retain outstanding talent, develop innovative solutions, and drive better decision-making, supporting long-term performance and better health outcomes for patients.
Leading through action
Ambitious for patients: representative clinical studies
Diseases and medicines can affect people differently depending on their ethnicity, sex, race and age. This means we need to make sure our clinical trials include people affected by the disease being studied. This supports our business performance by giving healthcare providers and the people who are prescribed our medicines and vaccines confidence in the safety and effectiveness of our products. Before starting enrolment, all our phase III clinical trials have representation plans to reflect the people most affected by a particular disease. In 2025, four phase III trials completed enrolment. Of these, two met the enrolment thresholds we set to ensure trial participants represent the disease epidemiology under study. We will continue to focus our efforts on improving trial participant representation.
Building a high-performing, inclusive organisation
Over recent years, we’ve delivered a step-change in performance, and we believe in the power of an inclusive culture and differing perspectives and experiences to unlock the full potential of the company. This helps attract and retain outstanding talent, develop innovative solutions, and drive better decision-making, supporting long-term performance and better health outcomes for patients.
We want GSK to be a workplace where our employees can feel a sense of belonging, be themselves, and have their different perspectives and characteristics valued, because this helps everyone perform at their best. We measure employee sentiment on inclusion as part of our employee survey, which includes questions on employees feeling welcome and included, feeling able to be themselves, valuing different perspectives, and agreeing on ways of working that enable them to perform at their best. For the past three years, our employee engagement scores have consistently been higher than 80% and remain above industry benchmarks. Our Employee Resource Groups are employee-led communities and are key partners to help us build an inclusive culture.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity, non-discrimination and merit-based decision making in the way we recruit manage and develop our people.
Fair and equal pay practices are crucial to create an environment where people feel welcome, valued, included and supported to thrive. We conduct country-based reviews and ensure all markets have clear guidance, tools and support to ensure pay fairness. If unexplained differences are detected, we address them through our compensation processes.
Employee Resource Groups
Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) run events, workshops and initiatives where everyone is welcome to learn, contribute and feel connected. ERG membership and events are open to all employees.
Our ERGs include:
- Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI)
- Spectrum (LGBTQ+)
- Disability Confidence Network (DCN)
- EMBRACE
- Mosaic
- Asia EMBRACE
- Crece
- FUSION
