Our Values
Our values inspire us and hold us accountable alongside our strategic plan
Patient-Led
We amplify patient voices, and we give people living with diabetes a direct role in organizational decision-making to ensure T1International and the #insulin4all movement keep patient voices front and center. Our messaging, focus, and mindset are patient-led.
Independent
We do not accept funding from the pharmaceutical industry or any entity that we believe would compromise our independence, integrity or ability to speak out freely.
Transparent
We strive to conduct ourselves with clarity, respect, and directness, so that others will always know where we stand. This includes thoughtful and proactive information sharing, in addition to financial and organizational transparency.
Inclusive
Our work, our values, our team, and our community reflect patients and a range of allies, from caregivers, to parents, to partners, to those committed to health equity and justice work. We acknowledge and seek to address the harm caused by systems of oppression and unnecessary hierarchies. We aim to share power with each other and our community and to be inclusive of people across lines of difference including race, gender identity, geographic location, language, literacy, economic status, type of diabetes, and more.
Bold
We believe our mission is possible and that we must boldly and without fear challenge those in power to ensure the rights of people with diabetes are upheld, even when it is not easy. We welcome hard conversations and don’t make assumptions, relying on each other to find solutions. We seek to transform the underlying structures that result in inequity and injustice.
Hopeful
We share a profound belief in the people and places with which we work. Our optimism about the possibility of change is rooted in our sense of hope and a determination to persist as a community, despite and because so many have faced unimaginable challenges. We work towards a world where our goals are achieved and there is no need for T1International to exist.
T1International, being independent and genuinely patient-led, has been able to take positions ‘left’ of mainstream access to medicines organizations and has helped to move the Overton Window.
Science Health and Information Clinic, New York University School of Law