24 Inizio Sustainability Report 2023 Inizio’s commitment to health equity What is health equity?* The challenge Our response Equity is the absence of unfair, Tackling health inequities requires With the support of our leadership avoidable, or remediable a comprehensive partnership and the dedication of our staff, we’re differences among groups of approach across the healthcare committed to making a real impact people, whether those groups ecosystem. This includes addressing for global communities. are defined socially, economically, social determinants of health such demographically, geographically, as improving access to primary care We see health equity not only as or by other dimensions, such as healthcare, promoting education, a moral imperative but also as a sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, and reducing poverty. The COVID-19 priority business strategy for our or sexual orientation. pandemic also highlighted issues clients, with the potential to open up ranging from a lack of trust in underserved markets for them and Health equity is achieved when science to biases built into health improve healthcare for millions of everyone can attain their full systems, as well as educational people. While many of our teams potential for health and wellbeing. barriers that hinder the pressing have already been working with Health and health equity are need to remove inequities in clients to address health inequities, determined by the conditions in healthcare delivery. this was a foundational year in which people are born, work, and connecting these champions as live, by their access to education The WHO, national health bodies, global health equity ambassadors. and healthcare, and by biological and regulators recognize the critical Colleagues from each of our divisions factors. Achieving health equity importance of health equity and are spearheading the effort to embed is a significant challenge and are pushing for greater equity in health equity into our client work, a social priority, as health is healthcare delivery, from demanding share best practices and build our a fundamental human right. more-representative clinical trials for capabilities to support our clients’ drug approvals to more-equitable unique needs. Ourgoal is to embed *As defined by the World Health reimbursement strategies. a health equity lens into every client Organization (WHO). project, and we’re beginning to leverage a decision-making framework to help clients consider health equity at each phase of the patient journey.