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Committed to Leading the Future of Healthcare

At Merck, corporate responsibility is our daily commitment to tackle the world's biggest health challenges by discovering better ways to make a difference in everything we do. It is a simple promise that is embedded in our business and informs all our individual actions.
Our commitment to corporate responsibility extends to how we achieve our business goals:

Message from the CEO

Message from the CEO

Merck must continue to discover new ways to overcome the challenges ahead. With our legacy of scientific excellence, customer focus, innovation, and our strategic focus on corporate responsibility, we are fully committed to leading the future of healthcare and we are tireless in our pursuit of discovering better answers, better actions and better results.

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Merck for Mothers

Merck for Mothers

Every day, 1,000 women die unnecessarily during pregnancy and childbirth. Merck is dedicating itself to the vision that no woman should die to give life. In the next decade, an estimated three million women may die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. We can do better than this. We must do better than this.

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Merck named to Access to Medicine Index

Merck named to Access to Medicine Index

Merck ranked No. 2 in the 2010 Access to Medicine Index, which assesses and ranks pharmaceutical companies on various criteria around global access to medicines. Merck ranked No. 1 in the category of product donations and philanthropy.

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Corporate Responsibility at Merck

Corporate Responsibility at Merck

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Transparency Disclosures

Merck aspires to be open and transparent about how it operates in order to earn and retain the trust and confidence of its customers, employees, shareholders and other important stakeholders.

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Giving at Merck

We believe a thoughtful and robust philanthropy program is a key mechanism to help address social problems.

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