We Work for Health Delaware is an effort to promote the significant social and economic value of the biopharmaceutical and life sciences sectors in our state. Our partnership includes biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, as well as state and local chambers of commerce, academic and research institutions, labor, patient advocate groups, physicians and healthcare providers. Together, our mission is to drive innovation, research and development to new cures.
The biopharmaceutical sector is the foundation of one of Delaware’s most dynamic innovation and business ecosystems. Not only does the industry invest heavily in the research and development of new treatments and cures, it also generates high quality jobs, powers economic output and exports for the U.S. economy and sustains a very large-scale supply chain.
Supporting High Quality Jobs in Delaware
The innovative biopharmaceutical sector directly supported 4,963 jobs in Delaware in 2017. These jobs are often high-skill, high-wage professions.
The industry also supported another 12,213 jobs indirectly, for a total of about 17,176 jobs across the Delaware economy. These additional jobs are with vendors and suppliers such as construction companies and I.T. companies, and jobs generated by the sector’s employees such as day care centers and restaurants.
Delaware workers whose jobs were supported by the biopharmaceutical sector paid a total of $273.2 million in personal taxes in 2017—$243.2 million in federal taxes and $30 million in state taxes.
Delaware's Economic Impact
In 2017, the biopharmaceutical sector supported $3.8 billion in economic output for the state of Delaware—including $1.7 billion generated directly by the sector, and another $2.07 billion through its vendors and suppliers and through the economic activity of its workforce.
Direct Output per Direct Employee in 2017
vendor relationships
vendor spending
$307,756,711
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Elected Officials
Partners
Co-Chairs
Helen Stimson, President, Delaware Bioscience Association
Dennis Rochford, Member, Delaware Health Care Commission
James Maravelias, President, Delaware AFL-CIO
Dr. Rev. Robert Hall, Executive Director, Delaware Ecumenical Council for Children & Families
Kathleen S. Matt, Ph.D., Executive Director, DE Health Sciences Alliance – Univ. of Delaware, Dean, College of Health Sciences
Peter Houle, Executive Director, Delaware HIV Consortium
Richard Heffron, President and CEO, Delaware State Chamber of Commerce
Business/Economic Development Partners
Aerotek Scientific, LLC
Agilent Technologies
Danio Diary
Delaware Economic Development Office
Delaware Ecumenical Council on Children & Families
Delaware Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Delaware State Chamber of Commerce
The Growth Coach
H & S Enterprise, Inc.
Integrated Social Solutions
Keen Compressed Gas Co.
MySherpa
New Castle County Chamber of Commerce
New Castle County Economic Development Council
Select Greater Philadelphia
Technology Forum of Delaware
United Way of Delaware
VWR International
Education Partners
Conrad Schools of Science
Delaware Academy of Medicine
Delaware Center for Health Promotion at Delaware State University
Delaware Sustainable Chemistry Alliance
Delaware State University, College of Math, Nat Sciences, and Tech
Delaware Technical & Community College
University of Delaware
Health Advocacy Groups
AIDS Delaware
ALS Association of Greater Philadelphia
Alzheimer’s Association, Delaware Valley Chapter
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
American Diabetes Association, Delaware Chapter
American Heart Association, Delaware Chapter
American Lung Association, Delaware Chapter
Arthritis Foundation, Delaware Chapter
Blood Bank of Delmarva
Christiana Care Health System
Connections –Community Support Programs
D'Souza and Associates
Delaware Aging Network
Delaware Association of Nonprofit Agencies
Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition (DBCC)
Delaware Health Care Network
Delaware Health Information Network
Delaware Health Sciences Alliance
Delaware HIV Consortium
Delaware Nurses Association
Delaware Pharmacists Society
Delaware Public Health Association
Diamond Spine Clinic
Epilepsy Foundation of Delaware
Genesis HealthCare
Henrietta Johnson Medical Center
Huntington's Disease Society of America Mid-Atlantic Region
iChromatography
Immune Deficiency Foundation
Immunization Coalition of Delaware
Institute for Community Health Center Performance
Junior Achievement of Delaware, Inc.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Delaware Chapter
LUNGevity
Medical Society of Delaware
Mid-Atlantic Association of Community Health Centers
Modern Maturity
National MS Society, Delaware Chapter
Neurofibromatosis Mid-Atlantic
Newark Senior Center
Peoples Settlement Senior Center
Quest Pharmaceutical Services (QPS)
Sarcoma Foundation of America
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics
Strategic Diagnostics
Streamline Health
St. Anthony's Senior Center
St. Francis Healthcare
Walgreens
Westside Family Health
William “Hicks” Anderson Community Center
Wilmington Senior Center
WellDoc, Inc.
Labor Partners
A. Philip Randolph Institute
Asbestos Workers- Local #42
AFL-CIO Delaware
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local #1607 and #640
American Postal Workers Union (APWU) – Southern Delaware Area
Building & Construction Trades Council of DE AFL-CIO
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers (Iron Workers)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) - 31238
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) - Local #1
International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 542
Laborer's International Union of North America (Local 1029)
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC)
United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters - Local 74
United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union (UAW) - Local # 435 and # 1183
United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) - Local #27
United Steelworkers of America (USWA)
Biopharmaceutical Partners
ABS, Inc.
Analtech, Inc
ANP Technologies
Aragen Bioscience
AstraZeneca
Biotech Vendor Services
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Delaware Bioscience Association
Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Delaware Biotechnology Park
Fraunhofer CMB
Global Pharma Analytics
Incyte
MIDI, Inc.
Separation Method Technologies, Inc.
SL Pharma Labs, Inc.
Snee Associates
Supercritical Fluid Technologies
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Media
Rev. Robert P. Hall, Delaware Ecumenical Council on Children and Families, thanks U.S. Senator Tom Carper for his support of the We Work For Health coalition and the biotech industry in Delaware.
Rev. Robert P. Hall, Delaware Ecumenical Council on Children and Families, thanks U.S. Senator Tom Carper for his support of the We Work For Health coalition and the biotech industry in Delaware.
Rob Eppes, Junior Achievement of Delaware, thanks U.S. Senator Tom Carper for his support of the We Work For Health coalition and the biotech industry in Delaware.
Rob Eppes, Junior Achievement of Delaware, thanks U.S. Senator Tom Carper for his support of the We Work For Health coalition and the biotech industry in Delaware.
