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Knowledge is power. We are committed to cultural competence and ensuring multicultural groups have access to healthcare information to decrease healthcare disparities through ongoing outreach. Much of this work is done in partnership with leading organizations. Together, we can improve the healthcare system.

Health Education Resources

Lilly for Better Health™: Through the dynamic website – www.lillyforbetterhealth.com – Lilly for Better Health goes beyond medicine to support your personal health care journey with health and wellness resources to encourage a healthier, more active life.

Programs for Youth

Center for Leadership Development (CLD): For more than 30 years, Lilly has partnered with CLD, which helps develop leadership and professional skills in African American youth in Indianapolis. Since 2005, and in conjunction with the CLD, Lilly sponsors the Corporate Youth Summit to expose minority youth to the career opportunities available in corporate America

Street Law: Lilly collaborates with Faegre Baker & Daniels LLP, on this national program at Indianapolis’ Shortridge Magnet High School for Law & Public Policy to help high school students learn real-world applications of civil law. With classroom teachers, representatives from Lilly’s law division and attorneys from Faegre Baker & Daniels co-teach civil law classes as an elective to 11th grade students. The program tackles the lack of diversity in the legal profession by focusing on strategies that encourage minority students to enter the legal profession and provides students with role models, connections with legal professionals, and the opportunity to experience the types of work legal professionals do.

Project Stepping Stone: Representatives from the Organization of Latinos at Lilly (OLA) participate in Project Stepping Stone, a community event for Indiana Latino high school students interested in attending college. The program helps ease the transition to college and helps students explore career opportunities.

Indiana Youth Group: The People Respecting Individual Differences Equally (PRIDE) employee resource group and the Lilly Foundation support Indiana Youth Group, an organization that provides a safe, confidential environment, youth development programs, and support services that foster personal strength and wellness among self-identified LGBT young people and questioning youth. The company supports IYG’s Gay-Straight Alliance program offered in local high schools.

 

Health Partnerships

Asian Cancer Research Group: Lilly, Merck and Pfizer Inc. have formed this independent not-for-profit company to accelerate research into the unmet medical needs of patients in Asia battling lung and gastric cancer. Over the next two years, the companies have committed to create an extensive pharmacogenomic cancer database of approximately 2,000 tissue samples from these patients. The database will be made publicly available to the research community and further populated with clinical data. Ultimately, the ACRG will aid researchers around the world to develop diagnostics, tailor current treatments and develop novel therapies to improve outcomes for patients with lung, gastric and perhaps other forms of cancer.

Empower Diabetes Disaster Plan: Following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Lilly partnered with the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) to develop the Empower Diabetes Disaster Plan. In the event of an emergency that forces you to evacuate your home, prepare a portable diabetes disaster kit that is both insulated and waterproof containing important items such as a list of medications and the contact names and numbers of your physicians. For more information about what to put in your kit visit the Empower Diabetes Disaster Plan website.

National Council of La Raza (NCLR): Lilly supports the NCLR and was a major sponsor of the organization’s inaugural Health Summit in 2012. In addition, the Lilly Foundation has provided funding for a “Promotores de Salud” (lay health workers) program—“De Blanco y Negro a Colores: Entendiendo la Depresión” (“From Black and White to Color: Understanding Depression”). The outreach promotes mental health awareness in Latino communities and is focused on public awareness and support for depression, including advocating for treatment through linguistically appropriate and culturally relevant messages.

National Medical Association: Lilly has partnered with the National Medical Association (NMA) on its annual health summit to address health issues facing the African American community with a focus on health disparities in key disease areas.

National Urban League:Lilly has partnered with the National Urban League (NUL) since 1957 to launch education initiatives designed to address health disparities and chronic disease prevention. In 2006, The Lilly Foundation and NUL began a multiyear “Health and Wellness” education initiative which offered local engagement of targeted Urban League affiliates to deliver health education to urban communities.