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 stakeholders.
While impractical to include all organizations that Baxter belongs to or supports, the list below provides a representative sample.
Advocacy Coalitions
- 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
Environmental and Sustainability Organizations
- Business for Social Responsibility
- Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
- Center for Health and the Global Environment
- Ceres
- Global Reporting Initiative
- National Environmental Education Foundation
- SustainAbility Engaging Stakeholders Program
Industry Organizations
- AdvaMed
- 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
- Pharmanet/i3
- 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
Patient Organizations
- Alpha-1 Foundation
- American Association of Kidney Patients
- Dialysis Patient Citizens
- European Hemophilia Consortium
- European Kidney Patients’ Federation (CEAPIR)
- European Patients' Forum
- Eurordis
- Immune Deficiency Foundation
- International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies (IPOPI)
- Hemophilia Federation of America
- International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis North American Chapter
- Jeffrey Modell Foundation
- Latin American Society for Immunodeficiencies
- National Hemophilia Foundation
- National Kidney Foundation
- The Oley Foundation
- World Federation of Hemophilia
Professional Organizations
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
- 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
- Clinical Immunology Society
- Corporate Executive Board Compliance and Ethics Leadership Council
- European Association for Haemophilia and Allied Disorders (EAHAD)
- European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID)
- International Nursing Group for Immunodeficiencies (INGID)
- International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies
- International Society of Nephrology
- Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
- Institute for Safe Medication 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)
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC)
Regional and Local Organizations
- American Chamber of Commerce for Brazil (AMCHAM Brasil)
- American Chamber of Commerce for Panama (Panama)
- Asociación Colombiana de Hospitales y Clínicas (ACHC) (Colombia)
- Asociación Venezolana de Equipos Médicos (AVEDEM) (Venezuela)
- Associação Brasileira dos Importadores de Equipamentos, Produtos e Suprimentos Médicos-Hospitalares (Abimed) (Brazil)
- Associação Brasileira de Produtores de Soluções Parenterais (ABRASP) (Brazil)
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (Australia & New Zealand)
- BioCrossroads (Indiana, U.S.)
- Cámara Argentina de Especialidades Medicinales (CAEMe) (Argentina)
- Cámara Industria Farmacéutica en Chile (ASILFA) (Chile)
- Cámara Nacional de la Industria Farmacéutica (CANIFARMA) (Mexico)
- Campaign for Greener Healthcare - Green Nephrology Group (U.K.)
- Canadian College of Health Service Executives (Canada)
- Canadian Patient Safety Institute (Canada)
- Chicago United (U.S.)
- The Commercial Club of Chicago (U.S.)
- Donors Forum (Illinois, U.S.)
- Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (U.S.)
- Industria Farmacéutica de Investigación e Innovación (IFI) (Ecuador)
- Green Building Council Italia (Italy)
- Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (Japan)
- Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (South Korea)
- National Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (global)
- Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association (Puerto Rico)
- Sociedad Argentina de Farmacia y Bioquímica (SAFIBY) (Argentina)
- Sindicato da Indústria de Produtos Farmacéuticos no Estado de São Paulo (Sindusfarma) (Brazil)







