Approach and Impact

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Approach and Impact
Support for Public Health
ECOSOC Special Event on Philanthropy United
Nations 23 February, 2009
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BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.)

• Medical technology company founded in 1897
• Global turnover US 7.2 billion in 2008
• 28,000 employees in over 50 countries
• Company Purpose Helping All People Live Healthy
  Lives
• Culture of deploying capabilities for public
  health needs

Life Sciences
Medical Devices
Diagnostics
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Support for Public HealthAreas of Focus

• Immunization
• - Maternal Neonatal Tetanus
• - Measles
• - Injection Safety
• Infectious Disease
• - HIV/AIDS
• -Tuberculosis
• Capacity Building
• - Health System Strengthening
• - Health Worker Wellness

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Support for Public HealthPhilanthropic Approach

• Cash donation
• In-kind donation of supplies and instrumentation
• Volunteerism

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Philanthropic Approach Maternal and Neonatal
Tetanus - UNICEF
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Philanthropic Approach Measles Partnership -
American Red Cross
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Support for Public HealthTechnical and Business
Approach

• Technology Access
• Sustainable supply of existing technology and
  development of new technology specifically for
  developing world needs
• Training Knowledge Transfer
• Partnership with public, private and non-profit
  sectors to strengthen health systems
• Advocacy and Policy
• Business sector engagement on issues involving
  child health and infectious disease

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Support for Public HealthCross-Sector
Collaboration
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Support for Public HealthKey Learnings from
Experience

• Companies can have positive impact across
  multiple intervention areas
• - Outright philanthropy (cash and in-kind)
• - Institutional knowledge transfer,
  training, volunteerism
• - Sustainable access to existing products
  and technology
• - Development of new technologies specific
  to developing world needs
• Strong collaboration skills are essential.
  Important for partners to have mutual trust and
  transparency regarding motivations.
• Companies, even large ones, do not have unlimited
  amounts of discretionary funding available. Most
  will align funding to their areas of competency.
• Causes most likely to attract funding will have
  clearly defined goals, measures, and ability to
  link impact directly to donor involvement.
• Beyond recognition of social responsibility,
  private sector partners benefit from strong
  employee engagement around a higher sense of
  purpose.

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Support for Public HealthImproving Outcomes for
Women and Girls

• An intersection of human rights, public health
  and sustainable development
• Actions can be highly leveraged interventions
  have a positive multiplier effect
• Requires progress across multiple parameters
  advocacy, resource deployment, physical and
  financial structures, laws (formal and informal),
  cultural belief systems, social norms, inter and
  intra family relationships
• Demonstrated in groundbreaking work of Nobel
  Laureate Muhammad Yunis
• - 100 school attendance, special
  scholarship program for girls
• - Separate sanitary facilities for girls in
  schools
• - Girls manufacture electronic parts for
  solar panels
• - Girls establish village health management
  centers
• - Micro-financing for women to own their own
  homes
• Nike Foundation "Girls Count" Initiative another
  impressive example