What is the Responsible Health Initiative?

Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, and Healthcare leaders are realizing the urgent need and opportunity to improve the social, ethical, and environmental impact within their supply chains. In response, GlaxoSmithKline, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Takeda have co-founded the Responsible Health Initiative - powered by EcoVadis.

Today, other leading companies have joined the co-founders to collaborate in the effort to accelerate progress in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector supply chain. The initiative continues to grow and welcomes pharma, biotechnology, healthcare companies and on a case-by-case basis also medical technology. Visit our dedicated webpage to see the current roster of members.

The vision of the Responsible Health Initiative is to create synergies between companies active in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector to raise standards and improve sustainability performance across the industry sector through:

• Harmonized standards for sustainability assessment
• A common platform for sharing and monitoring performance
• Shared tools to boost engagement and improvement plans
• Increased visibility, ease of reporting and benchmarks

The initiative is powered by EcoVadis’ scalable platform and trusted methodology, which offers deeper transparency and insight into suppliers’ ethics and business practices.

Discover the real impact of our initiative through leading companies' testimonials.

For the third parties and business partners of the RHI members, RHI will:

• Increase your company’s visibility to create trading relationships;
• Enhance the efficiency of sharing your sustainability performance with all the member companies;
• Reduce barriers and administrative burdens for your company and encourage transparency across the industry value chain.

Your acceptance to participate in a sustainability assessment, as requested by one of these members, is an express acceptance to share your sustainability performance rating with all current and future RHI members on the EcoVadis network.

If your company has not received any requests from us but wishes to share your EcoVadis Scorecard with RHI proactively, please contact us here or directly via email. To learn more about the benefits of a sector initiative to a rated company: What are the benefits of sector initiatives?

 If you are interested in becoming a member, please fill out this form to get started.

To explore the Responsible Health Initiative, please navigate to the official website.