25 Inizio Sustainability Report 2023 Inizio’s commitment to health equity continued “Across Inizio, our divisional ambassadorsare leading efforts to prioritize health equity internally and to embed this focus across our client work.” David Kyne, Special Adviser, ESG and Health Equity Partnership for Good initiative Diversity in clinical trials Evoke’s Global Health Equity Taskforce Our teams across Inizio authentic mentor/mentee Pharmaceutical companies, and more rapid disease Inizio Evoke’s Global Health Equity 1. Health literacy and trust in Engage often work directly relationships. Ultimately, the regulators, and patient and progression than White patients Taskforce (GHET) carries out the science: Included trainings on with patients and their care objective is to improve retention healthcare professional with MS. The team at Nucleus social and community health equity foundational health literacy, narrative partners, through our clinical of nurses entering the industry, organizations all recognize the developed publications and a imperative for Inizio Evoke. medicine and applying those educators or other healthcare build a nurse population that’s need for a more diverse range of scientific narrative highlighting the learnings to roles at the agency. specialist team members. This more reflective of the communities participants in clinical trials. Greater importance of a neurology clinical The GHET was established in means they experience first- they serve, and create a more diversity and inclusion means trial in underrepresented patients 2022 by the Inizio Evoke DEI 2. Cultural competency and access hand the inequities that patients cohesive healthcare environment. these trials can better assess risks, from trial initiation. The team also team as part of its Global DEI to healthcare: Delivered an all- often deal with in accessing benefits and treatment responses closely collaborated with the client Infrastructure. The GHET began employee training on digital health healthcare services. Our Engage team is also in a generalized patient population, and external authors to accurately to help identify, implement, and equity in order to raise awareness providing much-needed so safer and more-effective convey the unique aspects of the drive key health equity initiatives of the digital divide. During the year, we supported grassroots education to the treatments can be developed for trial, using appropriate and internally for ouremployees and a Partnership for Good Initiative public on the importance of everyone. Where there is inclusive language and data externally for our clients and 3. Mental health and psychological for one of the largest global early screening and detection for insufficient diversity, this can be visualization techniques to global healthcare communities safety: Collaborated with HR pharmaceutical manufacturers. kidney disease, which can often due to barriers at the system, emphasize distinctiveness. through four key areas of focus: featuring diverse practitioners This focused on an inclusive be deadly. By meeting patients patient, and study levels. breaking down the stigma related mentorship program, to provide in locations such as barber shops, to mental health and therapy in guidance and career advice to places of worship, nail salons, This year, Inizio Medical has order to combat burnout and new nurses in areas with high and community centers, we focused on embedding a health engage leadership in a workshop health inequality. The average build trust and ensure that equity lens internally through the entitled The Mental Health age of a registered nurse in the patient groups with the highest ambassador program and by Impact of Avoiding Important U.S. is over 50 and there’s an unmet need have access to supporting clients to increase DEI Conversations. urgent need to replace them reliable information that will diversity in their clinical trials, as they retire, in particular in areas improve their health outcomes. through patient recruitment and 4. The relationship between with the highest unmet need. retention. One example of note is food and health: Discussions The program will help nurses to the CHIMES (Characterization of internally focused on Food & experience the satisfaction that Ocrelizumab in Minorities with Health Through The Lens of comes from giving back, develop Multiple Sclerosis) clinical research Food Insecurity & Poverty. a deeper appreciation for the program. Black/African American value they offer, improve their and Hispanic/Latino patients with confidence, communication and multiple sclerosis (MS) have leadership skills, and create a historically been underrepresented sense of community through in MS clinical trials, while also exhibiting greater disease severity