s the world’s largest healthcare company, Johnson & Johnson has a unique ability to apply its expertise and partnering power to advance progress on some of the most difficult global health challenges. We focus our sustainability efforts where we believe our Company can achieve the greatest impact. These efforts are based on our ESG priorities, grounded in Our Credo values, informed by both our Company’s purpose to change the trajectory of health for humanity and the views of our external stakeholders.

We believe that sound ESG practices drive financial value creation by building stakeholder trust, driving innovation, mitigating risk, fostering employee engagement, increasing productivity and reducing costs. Our ESG strategy is designed to effectively govern and manage the ESG risks and opportunities that arise from our core business strategy.

Our ESG management approach includes:

• Promoting sound governance structures and controls, strategy and goal setting, risk identification, prioritization and mitigation systems and disclosure and reporting to support our approach to long-term value creation.

• Delivering innovative health solutions for patients and consumers to advance health for everyone, everywhere.

• Investing in our employees, creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment in which all can belong, and empowering employees to strengthen the communities in which we live and work.

• Marshaling our expertise, resources and partnerships to reduce the environmental footprint of our operations, our products and our extended supply chain.