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Volunteering Hours Well Spent

What do climbing mountains, cleaning beaches, and being backstage at the Commonwealth games have in common? They’re all ways our wonderful employees have chosen to spend their paid 40 hours volunteering time! Across the summer months, MSD colleagues have travelled far and wide, utilising their hours to make a real impact outside of their daily […]

Our People

Actions not Words : Black History Month

As MSD in the UK celebrates Black History Month this October, our League of Employees of African Descent (LEAD) has been reflecting on their activities to help boost diversity, equity, and inclusion over the past year. Our LEAD team has been working closely alongside talent acquisition colleagues to find ways of increasing better representation throughout […]

Responsibility

MSD publishes key report on inequalities in cancer

Levelling up: what does it mean for cancer in England? Sadly, some cancers are deemed less survivable owing to issues with diagnosis or treatment compared to other cancer types. MSD believes there is an opportunity for the Government to pledge to double survival rates for people with one of these less survivable cancers over the […]

Responsibility

Why Health Literacy matters to us at MSD

Antibodies. Variants. Transmissibility. Who would have ever thought we’d use words like these in everyday life? The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how important it is to understand health information to help keep ourselves and our families, friends and communities healthy. Improving health literacy – defined as a person’s ability to find, understand and use information […]