About our company
We invent for a more hopeful future.
We aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world
For more than 125 years, Merck(known as MSD outside of the U.S. and Canada) has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases in pursuit of our mission to save and improve lives.
We demonstrate our commitment to patients and population health by increasing access to health care through far-reaching policies, programs and partnerships.
Today, we continue to be at the forefront of research to prevent and treat diseases that threaten people and animals – including cancer, infectious diseases, such as HIV and Ebola, and emerging animal diseases.
The heart of our mission
We believe corporate responsibility is about our health, social, environmental and economic impact on people and communities around the world.
The team that guides our work
Our leaders focus on our mission to save and improve lives around the world. This is the foundation of everything we do.
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Patients first
We are all accountable for delivering high-quality products and services. We aspire to improve the health and wellness of people and animals worldwide and to expand access to our medicines and vaccines. All of our actions must be measured against our responsibility to those who use or need our products.
Respect for people
Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity, safety and teamwork of our employees. To this end, we work to create an environment of mutual respect, inclusion and accountability. We reward commitment and performance and are responsive to the needs of our employees and their families.
Ethics and integrity
We are committed to the highest standards of ethics and integrity. We are responsible to our customers, to our competitors, to distributors and suppliers, to shareholders and to the communities we serve worldwide. In discharging our responsibilities, we do not take professional or ethical shortcuts.
Innovation and scientific excellence
We are dedicated to innovation and scientific excellence. Our research is guided by a commitment to improving health and quality of life. We strive to identify the most critical needs of patients and customers, and through continuous innovation, we challenge ourselves to meet those needs.
Our values are driven by a desire to improve life
We’ve built a culture that embraces scientific excellence, operates with the highest standards of integrity, expands access to our products and employs a diverse workforce that values collaboration.
Our past and our future
For more than 125 years, we’ve focused on not just the next quarter, but the next quarter century.