Novartis AG (NVS) Discusses Social Impact, Global Health Initiatives, and Sustainability Strategy Transcript

Mavic Cuevas

Good morning and good afternoon. Welcome to our 12th Annual Social Impact and Sustainability Event. Before we start, I would like to quickly read our safe harbor statement. The information presented today contains forward-looking statements that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. These may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. For a description of some of these factors, please refer to the company’s Form 20-F and its most recent quarterly results on Form 6-K that, respectively, were filed with and furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Now to officially open our event and set the stage, I’m pleased to hand over to Steffen.

Steffen Lang
President of Operations

Thank you, Mavic. Welcome, and thanks to everyone online for joining us. My name is Steffen Lang, and I’m the President of Operations. We have prepared a full agenda for the next hour. First, we have Lutz Hegemann, who is our President of Global Health. He will cover our progress on our global health pipeline, including recent milestones in the fight against malaria. Then we’ll share a fireside chat, which recently took place between Sujata Vaidyanathan, our development Head for Global Health; and Martin Fitchet, the CEO of Medicines for Malaria Venture, a key partner of ours.

After that, we will have Korab Zuka, our Global Head of Social Impact and Chief Sustainability Officer who will cover some of the innovative work we are doing to