Health equity

Everyone deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. We aim to close healthcare gaps, to give people everywhere the chance to be as healthy as possible.

Quality and timely healthcare remains out of reach for too many individuals across low, middle, and high-income countries. Barriers to screening, early detection, precision diagnosis, and treatment affect many, compounded by gender, geography, income and environmental factors. By partnering to close healthcare gaps throughout the patient journey, we can improve health equity in high burden diseases, including cancer, lung, cardiovascular, renal, metabolic, and rare diseases.

At AstraZeneca, we have a mission to improve health outcomes and advance equity so more people across the globe can live their healthiest lives. We’re committed to ensuring access to health care for all and by 2030, we aim to reach 1 billion people — 40% representing underserved groups and have our medicines available in more than 125 countries.

Dave Fredrickson Executive Vice-President, Oncology Business Unit, AstraZeneca

Our approach to health equity

With one of the broadest portfolios and global footprints in our sector, we’re embedding health equity in everything we do, from our research and development to the delivery of care and community engagement. By following the science, we aim to understand and address factors impacting health outcomes among different populations. Partnering with governments, health systems and communities, we are creating solutions that bridge healthcare gaps, promote healthier behaviours, enable early disease detection and improve access to treatments for those who need them.

Science

We are ensuring our genomics research and clinical trials are representative of the populations most impacted by disease and are enabling the re-use of our science to advance open innovation.

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Healthcare delivery

We are closing care gaps throughout the patient journey by improving health education, advocating for policy change, and partnering to bring evidence-based solutions tailored towards those at risk.

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Community investment

We are addressing the root causes of health inequities to prevent disease. Empowering young people to make informed health choices and investing in underserved communities to increase access to care are key areas of focus.

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