A healthy heart. A child reading the chalkboard. A confident smile.
These moments are simple but powerful. And everyone deserves to experience them.
Yet for millions of people, access to specialized care remains out of reach—turning treatable conditions into lifelong challenges.
Since 2020, Johnson & Johnson has donated more than $100 million of MedTech products to expand access to the specialized care that fuels healthier communities and stronger economies. Building on this, through J&J CareCommunity, Johnson & Johnson and the J&J Foundation plan to contribute an additional $20 million in 2026 toward programs and impact investments that will provide new tools, training and sustained support for health workers so they can deliver the care communities need to live, see and smile.
Here’s what that looks like in action.
Helping people live
Timely, accessible cardiac care saves lives.
In collaboration with the American Heart Association, with the American Heart Association, Johnson & Johnson is finding innovative ways to expand access to CPR training for our employees and communities. We recently launched a Hands-Only CPR training kiosk at the Museum of Science in Boston—an interactive experience that helps everyday people practice lifesaving skills. By educating communities about hands-only CPR, we’re empowering more people to respond confidently to cardiac emergencies beyond hospital walls.
Helping people see
For a child struggling in school, the problem isn’t always comprehension—sometimes it’s simply that they can’t see the board.
In 2002, Johnson & Johnson collaborated with Lions Clubs International Foundation to launch Sight For Kids, a program that connects children in low-income schools with comprehensive eye health screenings and care at no cost. Since then, with support from the J&J Foundation, Sight For Kids has reached more than 55 million students around the world, helping 650,000 students access treatment and surgeries and providing 515,000 pairs of eyeglasses. Now, the program is training community health workers to reach more children in more places.
Johnson & Johnson and the J&J Foundation are building on this impact through our work with SEE International, where we’re supporting medical teams and volunteers who bring sight-restoring cataract surgeries to people who need them. Combined with our collaboration with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) to elevate eye health on national agendas, we’re accelerating progress toward ending preventable blindness by 2030.
Helping people smile
For more than 35 years, we’ve partnered with Operation Smile to expand access to safe surgery for children born with cleft palates—a condition that can affect their ability to breathe, eat, speak and fully experience life. Our partnership has helped Operation Smile provide cleft surgeries for more than 500,000 children and young adults.
In addition to providing sutures, Johnson & Johnson and the J&J Foundation are empowering nurses with leadership and skills training, creating lasting change in local communities that deliver impact beyond individual procedures. By investing in strong health systems and equipping local health workers, we’re helping to bring life-changing care closer to home, helping children communicate clearly and move through life with confidence.
Together with our support to the UN Global Surgery Learning Hub (SURGhub), of which we are a founding partner, and our $1 million commitment, including support from J&J Foundation, to SURGfund—an innovative funding model to build local surgical capacities—this work is helping build strong supported surgical systems that help restore confidence, independence and possibility.
The power of one, at scale
At Johnson & Johnson, we understand the power of scale—how training one health worker can enable them to serve hundreds of patients and how equipping one surgical team can strengthen an entire community’s access to care.
In collaboration with Medicine for All People (MAP) International, we provide critical products including sutures, bladder sounds, fistula scissors and catheter organizers. By providing health workers with the right tools, we ensure they have what they need to care for their communities.
The impact is far-reaching: health workers equipped to deliver more care, communities strengthened by access to essential procedures and lives changed through restored vision, healed hearts and transformed smiles.
As we continue working with these global and local organizations, we remain focused on a future where care is possible for all, and that every patient has the opportunity to live, see and smile.