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Our response to social unrest in the United States

In response to the social unrest in the United States Jovan Willford

in 2020, we took the opportunity to review our social Senior Vice President and General Manager
Commercial Solutions
engagement initiatives and reinvigorate and enhance
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a number of our existing programs to benefit our
employee community. In addition, we specifically We are honored to chair the Black Outreach
engaged our Black employee community through an & Engagement Initiative and to be able to
extensive series of town halls, listening sessions and work with our employees to further support
two-way dialogue that included our Chief Executive
our Black colleagues, the broader Black
Officer and our entire senior leadership team. In these
community and all of IQVIA.
sessions, we heard several consistent themes on
employee needs:

• Recognition, education and understanding of Black

experiences and challenges

• Opportunity, advocacy and support

• Forums for community building and engagement.

As a result of this extensive engagement, we made a

decision to launch the Black Outreach & Engagement
Initiative. Under this initiative, we are focusing on
developing tangible approaches to address the needs of Jon Resnick
our Black employee community through the following President U.S. and Canada
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three pillars:

• Awareness and Dialogue: Creating awareness along

with active and visible dialogue within IQVIA regarding
matters of diversity and inclusion impacting the Black
employee community
Leading from the top
• Mentorship: Creating networks to support the
successful growth and development of Black In 2020 and into 2021, our senior executive team is
professionals as they progress in their careers through participating in comprehensive diversity and inclusion
role modeling, network building and sponsorship
training, led by a leading third-party consultancy. The
• Representation: Creating opportunities for Black response so far has been positive, and, as a result,
professionals across all levels of the company.
we are expanding the training to all levels of our

organization in the United States.

Early feedback on the Black Outreach & Engagement
Initiative from our employees has been very positive.

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