All organizations have a role to play in advancing health for all and eliminating disparities in health and wellbeing outcomes between and within countries.
The Zero Health Gaps Pledge is a commitment from CEOs across industries and regions for their organizations to play their part by embedding health for all in core strategies, operations and investments. It is composed of 10 commitments:
Continually seek to understand how our organization can help address the root causes of health inequities and create a positive health equity impact
Assess our own organization’s health for all impact across our workforce (e.g., employee workplace health exposures), offerings and services (e.g., quality and accessibility for underserved populations), communities (e.g., investments in community health) and ecosystems (e.g., health impact promotion through advocacy and public statements).
Consistently seek to understand health for all needs across our workforce, consumer base, communities, and ecosystem to make strategic decisions, inclusive of investments, and use insights to inform our organization’s choices from strategy to execution.
Measure the impact of our health for all efforts, such as health and wellbeing benefits, in ways that identify variations between and across groups, and use insight to inform decisions.
Seek to employ ethical use of data and strong privacy controls.
Look for opportunities to share progress externally, including potentially as a part of ESG and other sustainability reporting.
Establish and strengthen accountability systems within our organization by creating an environment where lessons can be shared and scaled, including having health equity as an agenda item at board meetings
Collaborate with communities to identify key health for all needs and identify potential solutions, and to measure impact.
Inspire other organizations across sectors to act, to share learnings and collective investment decisions, and to accelerate the work of the H4A and beyond.
Support the creation of a concrete, measurable roadmap with achievable global milestones towards health for all.
Join 125 organizations who have signed the pledge.
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Health For All Initiative
A World Economic Forum Initiative