Healthcare is increasingly being asked to square a difficult circle: deliver care without contributing to the environmental pressures driving disease in the first place. At the same time, systems are being pushed to shift from treatment to prevention as the basis for long-term sustainability.
“One of the most interesting insights of our journey is that investment in sustainability drives innovation,” said Maria Paola Chiesi, vice chair at Chiesi, speaking at the recent Euractiv Health Policy Conference in Brussels.
Sustainability is increasingly shaping how the company invests, innovates and positions itself in a more competitive global landscape.
Rather than slowing innovation, sustainability can act as a catalyst, pushing companies to rethink product design, supply chains, and long-term strategy, and to adapt to the needs of patients, healthcare systems, and other stakeholders. But turning that potential into real-world outcomes depends on stable and predictable policy conditions.
“We need a stable framework, clear rules of the game. If the rules of the game can change every other year, we will not be able to make the change,” Chiesi said.
