Affiliations and Memberships
Baxter and its employees engage with many professional, industry and business organizations, covering a variety of geographic areas, diseases, markets and sustainability issues. By participating in these groups, Baxter can expand its influence, help raise industry standards, share and learn best practices, and advance discussions within and beyond the healthcare industry. Forming relationships with these associations helps Baxter engage with and meet the ongoing needs of its relevant stakeholders.
While impractical to include all organizations that Baxter belongs to or supports, the list below provides a representative sample.
Advocacy Coalitions
- Alliance for Work-Life Progress
- Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
- Boston College Center for Work & Family
- Catalyst
- Center for Companies That Care
- Corporate Voices for Working Families
- National Safety Council
- Partnership for Quality Medical Donations
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Environmental and Sustainability Organizations
- Business for Social Responsibility
- Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
- Ceres
- Chicago Climate Exchange (acquired by IntercontinentalExchange in 2010)
- Global Reporting Initiative
- National Environmental Education Foundation
- SustainAbility Engaging Stakeholders Program
Industry Organizations
- AdvaMed
- Assobiomedica (Italy)
- BIOTECanada
- Biotechnology Industry Organization
- EucoMed
- EuropaBio
- European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
- European Organization for Packaging and the Environment (EUROPEN)
- European Vaccine Manufacturers
- Hemophilia Federation of America
- Irish Business & Employers Confederation (IBEC) - Health & Safety Policy Committee
- Institute for Supply Management
- MEDEC
- Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association
- Rx-360 (International Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Consortium)
- US-ASEAN Business Council
- VCI Association of Chemical Industry (Germany)
Patient Organizations
- Alpha-1 Foundation
- American Association of Kidney Patients
- Dialysis Patient Citizens
- Immune Deficiency Foundation
- Hemophilia Federation of America
- International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis North American Chapter
- Jeffrey Modell Foundation
- National Hemophilia Foundation
- National Kidney Foundation
- The Oley Foundation
- World Federation of Hemophilia
Professional Organizations
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- American Nephrology Nurses Association
- American Society of Anesthesiologists
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- American Society of Nephrology
- American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
- The Auditing Roundtable
- Board Source
- Corporate Executive Board Compliance and Ethics Leadership Council
- Council on Foundations
- Ethics & Compliance Officer Association
- Ethisphere Council
- Grantmakers in Health
- International Society of Nephrology
- Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)
- Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
- Institute for Safe Medicine Practices
- Institute for Supply Management
- NAEM (formerly National Association for Environmental Management)
- National Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc.
- Renal Physicians Association
- Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE)
- Women's Economic Development Organization
Regional and Local Organizations
- Asociación Colombiana de Hospitales y Clínicas (ACHC)
- Asociación Venezolana de Equipos Médicos (AVEDEM)
- Associação Brasileira dos Importadores de Equipamentos, Produtos e Suprimentos Médicos-Hospitalares (Abimed) (Brazil)
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology
- BioCrossroads (Indiana)
- Cámara Industria Farmacéutica en Chile (ASILFA) (Chile)
- Campaign for Greener Healthcare - Green Nephrology Group
- Canadian College of Health Service Executives
- Canadian Patient Safety Institute
- Chicago United
- The Commercial Club of Chicago
- Donors Forum (Illinois)
- Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization
- Green Building Council Italia
- Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
- Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
- National Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
- Pharmanet
- Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association
- Sociedad Argentina de Farmacia y Bioquímica (SAFIBY)







