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of CVS Health senior management, including our internal Disclosure Committee, which is comprised of management from principal functional areas within the company.

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Please submit your feedback to [email protected] CVS Health Corporation Attn: SVP, Corporate Social Responsibility and Philanthropy One CVS Drive, Woonsocket, RI 401-765-1500 Preparation of this Report This report contains certain forwardlooking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties.

Our CSR Approach Thermo Fisher’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy encompasses three primary elements: business sustainability, employee engagement and philanthropic giving.

and aligned with our Values — Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement.

helps to strengthen our company’s culture and inform our decision making.

Our company mission is closely aligned with our commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainable growth.

Our corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy is grounded in business sustainability, because sound business practices and operational excellence are key to our growth, now and in the future.

A Culture of Operational Excellence We continuously improve our operations through our PPI Business System, which stands for Practical Process Improvement.

By leveraging PPI, we have embedded continuous improvement within our culture, from reducing usage of fuels to increased recycling.

an ongoing framework to get more involved in our communities, the CACs also provide opportunities for their development as leaders.

These teams focus on energy conservation, alternative energy usage, water conservation, waste minimization, recycling, green chemistry, packaging reduction and green building and engage and inspire employees to practice environmental efficiency at work and at home.

Lithuania for its exceptional work with the local community, employment practices and environmental management.

Ongoing training, site safety inspections and a shared culture of monitoring to prevent potential incidents all contributed to this impressive milestone.

Exploring the Human Genome Celebrating the Human Genome Project, we recently sponsored “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,” an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution.

Employees Team Up for STEM Education Together with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, Thermo Fisher’s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Community Action Council co-developed the STEM Design Challenge, an educational competition that promotes student exploration of engineering skills.

The annual program includes teacher training and a statewide competition for the students to solve a problem with the solution aligned with our mission, to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner or safer.

Individual businesses within our company have implemented procedures to maintain local compliance with marketing communications laws and codes.

As good corporate citizens, we do business in a way that reflects the very best of Illumina and honors the trust that our employees, patients, customers, community, and shareholders put in us.

Empowering our community to quickly respond to the pandemic, natural disasters, and racial inequality demonstrated our corporate citizenship.

We supported the global community with over $COVID-19 response from in-kind donations, direct giving, and the Illumina Corporate Foundation.

It is my pleasure to introduce the second Illumina Corporate Social Responsibility Report.

We will continue to strive to be the best employer, the best environmental steward, and the best corporate citizen we can possibly be.

Stewardship of our fiduciary responsibility includes a strong emphasis on managing risk, driving performance, and ensuring business integrity.

We initially chose the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as our reporting framework because it was the most comprehensive.

A. We have expanded our reporting framework to include GRI plus the recommendations from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

We recognize that stewardship of our fiduciary responsibility includes a strong emphasis on managing risk, driving performance, and ensuring business integrity.

While some labs are still not operating at their pre-pandemic levels, we see very positive signs that our business is trending in the right direction.

The complete Board of Directors provides guidance and direction on environmental, social, and governance issues and opportunities that have potential impact on reputation and long-term economic viability, including climate action.

The CSR programs are embedded into our business through several supporting working groups, including the Diversity & Inclusion Council; Environment, Health & Safety Steering Committee; Quality Council; Public Policy Committee; Illumina Cares Champions; Sustainability Green Teams; and employee resource groups (ERGs).

Giving governance for Illumina, Inc. is led by the Corporate Citizenship Steering Committee.

goals we can most uniquely impact: Our People We cultivate an agile, innovative workplace, and a culture fueled by collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and fairness.

We align our business principles with our core values, ethical responsibilities, and legal obligations.

and Security Note: In this report, we use the terms “material” and “materiality” to refer to topics that reflect Illumina’s meaningful environmental, social, and governance impact.

Our internal engagement encompassed all organizational levels, while our external engagement included representatives from global, national, and local interests.

Having been integrated into clinical practice at a faster rate than almost any innovation in the history of medicine, it is today creating a path toward personalized medicine and inspiring hope worldwide.

Connecting families to a wider community of people with similar experiences helps provide support and strength during the search for a diagnosis, and can improve care and management.

IN AFRICA The Illumina Corporate Foundation provided a $for Neuropsychiatric Genetics Education in Research (GINGER).

Demand for this competitive program is high, with places filled by research fellows from Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda.

Illumina joined a cross-sector partnership through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support the launch of the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (APGI).

of Genomics A grant from the Illumina Corporate Foundation helped support the Genomics Essentials in Hematologic Malignancies (GENOM) project via the American Society of Hematology, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and the France Foundation.

In this section: 29 Focus on Community: Overview 30 Giving Back Is in Our DNA 31 Corporate Citizenship in Action: Illumina Cares 32 Employees Making a Difference 34 Empowering Our Communities During the Pandemic 35 Educating Future Generations By sharing our time, talent, and technology, we aim to inspire, support, and empower our communities, our employees, and the next generation.

A: When the impact of the global pandemic started to unfold, we were able to leverage our CSR framework and respond in a comprehensive way.

It was key to apply our risk-based approach to protecting employees, ensuring business continuity for our supply chain and maintaining our culture of giving for disaster response and employee engagement.

Fostering a culture that emboldens our employees to give back is integral to connecting to our mission.

Our corporate giving connects to our CSR focus areas with the themes of access to genomics, diversity of genomic data, patient support, independent medical education, disaster response, and diversity.

global challenges Our CSR framework enabled us to focus our community response toward the global health crisis and to racial inequality.

Our Commitment We are committed to being good corporate citizens.

To establish our culture of giving right from the start, each new hire receives seed money to their Illumina giving account to donate to the cause of their choice.

For each photo, the Illumina Corporate Foundation made a donation to Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego.

Vanessa Light, Illumina Corporate Citizenship Program Manager, became a patient family member when her diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Through genetic testing, doctors were able to identify an extra X chromosome in his DNA that provided insight and change management to his treatment regimen.

Illumina, Inc. donated $support the critical work undertaken during the pandemic by nonprofit Testing for America, which both supported the response to the COVID-19 testing crisis in the US, and helped to ensure the safe reopening of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

DNA Decoded A partnership between the Illumina Corporate Foundation and Discovery Education, DNA Decoded provides ready-to-go, standards-aligned lessons and activities for teachers and students to explore the ways in which they can see genomics being used in everyday life.

In made donations specifically designed to address the issue of racial inequality found in education and STEM studies.

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we held internal and external careers panels with schools based in communities where English was primarily a second language.

By understanding the marvels of nature, the power of the genetic code, and collective action, we can protect the planet that sustains us all.

We are proud to connect our ground-breaking innovations to our sustainability goals and lead the way for our industry.

Our next priority was to ensure that our customers and our internal labs could continue efforts researching and responding to the pandemic using our technology.

In progress Our Why With human health at the heart of our business, we will continue to seek opportunities for environmental protection and take action on the climate crisis.

We are responding to climate change risk such as increased severe weather events, potential policy changes, and reputational harm by investing in more renewable energy, integrating green design principles into our facilities and products, and continuing to drive innovation.

We hope to convert the fuel cell to a renewable biofuel as innovation in the field evolves and the price of this commodity reduces to support a reasonable ROI • Conserved energy through optimization of the central plant and chilled water retrocommissioning, LED lighting, and roomoccupancy controls for lighting and HVAC • Increased efficiency with Tesla battery storage system to capture and store energy when demand is low, and discharge during peak times • Utilized the Aircuity lab management system to continuously monitor air quality throughout the day, providing demandbased ventilation to meet safety protocols.

• Participated in a two-year Strategic Energy Management (SEM) program with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and our local utility provider.

For those identified as operating in water-stressed regions, we are committed to focusing additional efforts on water management planning.

Our approach to non-hazardous waste management utilizes a hierarchy where source reduction is the most preferable option, and landfill is the least preferable.

Our hazardous waste management hierarchy is designed to minimize impact and manage materials in the most environmentally responsible manner, following the hierarchy: reclamation/reuse, recycle, waste to energy recovery, fuel blending, wastewater treatment, incineration, autoclave, and landfill when other alternatives are not available.

Product Take Back and Recycling We participate in required compliance schemes for producer responsibility to ensure proper collection, management, and disposal.

Our Supply Chain Supply Chain: Engaging Our Suppliers Illumina considers it a business imperative to work with suppliers who share our goal of being a good corporate citizen.

Supplier return facilities inspect and refurbish for return shipment to Illumina Pallets are modular and break down flat for easy return of multiple units via land or ocean Supports internal movement network and customer bulk orders Recyclable Insulated Containers A move to plant-based paper insulated containers results in a solution which is recyclable.

The iConserve work will consist of research into the comparative genomics of lemurs, which will provide structure to cataloging biodiversity in wild and captive populations.

This will ultimately support decisions around species conservation and management.

A: We are fortunate to have a culture at Illumina, much like our company mission, that is focused on care and support.

Our culture of care has served as our foundation and has been built upon the principles of employee trust, flexibility, transparency, and well-being.

While we never anticipated a crisis of this nature or scale—of a global pandemic—our culture of care foundation has been built to respond to crises as they arise.

We increased our all-company meetings to twice a month, launched a twice-monthly forum with our Chief Medical Officer, and created dedicated internal channels for COVID-19 support and updates.

While there is still much work to be done, we are committed to this journey of fostering a global culture that is more equitable and more representative of the diverse world we live in.

A strong culture of safety, belonging, and wellness leads to more engaged employees, allowing our workforce to offer their best work to our mission.

Our Commitment We are committed to nurturing a culture of care, delivering practices and programs that are as progressive as the products we are innovating.

We strive to foster an inclusive and diverse culture in which all employees feel valued and appreciated.

This culture helps people engage at their best, knowing they have an equal opportunity to grow and succeed based on their performance, regardless of individual differences.

We invest equally in our employees and work to create a culture that encourages all our employees to share their unique perspectives and experiences, learn from one another, and contribute.

An inclusive, diverse workforce also reflects our global business and customer base and will lead to continuous improvements as an organization.

As we aim to embed diversity, inclusion, and fairness in all we do, our response to evolve our DIF strategy is integrated across the areas of our employees, our culture, our suppliers, and our community.

For this reason, we monitor our pay equity status and market competitiveness on an annual basis to ensure we offer equal pay.compensation cycle once again confirmed a zero net gap2 in pay.

Culture Our employee resource groups (ERG) are key to fostering a respectful workplace and a more inclusive environment.

By connecting individuals with their peers, ERGs enable groups to develop a collective voice on shared issues and promote internal and external diversity initiatives.

We are working to create a culture where employees choose to participate in these supplemental opportunities.

The pledge recognizes the importance of companies truly representing the communities they serve, which results in improved economy, corporate performance, and employee engagement.

Moreover, we recognize that a diverse supply base offers a competitive advantage by harnessing suppliers’ unique experiences, creativity, and innovative solutions.

Our program, overseen by a Supplier Diversity Governance Committee, promotes partnership opportunities for suppliers in the US that are at least qualifying diverse group.

Our culture of care has never been more relevant or important.

Carolina Perez, Mechanical Engineering student, Manufacturing Design Quality Summer Intern, US “This summer I had the pleasure of working as a Quality Engineering Intern within Illumina’s Manufacturing Design Quality team on a project improving risk management.

Learning at Illumina Career Development All employees require the right tools to navigate their career development.

Courses ranged from leading teams to influencing others and time management.

Our leaders live our values, lead change, and focus on results.

Development does not stop at management, and we promote a series of leadership programs for both new and experienced leaders.

Sample leadership development opportunities Emerging Leaders Participants are nominated by their manager, having demonstrated potential leadership skills and an interest in people management.

Managing at Illumina and Leadership Edge Provides those new to leadership with the insights, tools, resources, and skills required to effectively lead others.

Power Hours Sessions for frontline leaders, run by subject matter experts, to develop the skills and knowledge required to lead teams effectively.

Culture of Coaching We believe that every conversation is an opportunity to coach.