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Cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart founded Charles Pfizer & Company in a red brick building in Brooklyn, NY.
Our Purpose
We’re in relentless pursuit of breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. We innovate every day to make the world a healthier place. It was Charles Pfizer’s vision at the beginning and it holds true today.
Our Responsibility
Our unique resources allow us to do more for people. Using our global presence and scale, we’re able to make a difference in local communities and the world around us.
- Corporate Compliance
Our Compliance Program represents a shared undertaking from the highest levels of management to the most junior employees.
- Diversity and Inclusion
Because everyone has something to offer. Diversity is just as crucial to building a successful business as it is to building a vibrant culture.
- EHS Governance
We integrate environment, health, and safety (EHS) into how we run our business to ensure that management of risk and regulatory compliance are overseen at the highest levels of the company. With our EHS Policy as the foundation, implementation of Pfizer's EHS Standards and Audit programs establish the performance expectations for colleagues around the world. Each Pfizer colleague plays a crucial role in facilitating a culture of EHS excellence where all improvements, ideas, and opportunities are welcomed. Our governance framework and culture provide the basis for proactive engagement and shared accountability of EHS across our operations.
- EHS Supply Chain
A network of external suppliers is essential to enable manufacture of medicines and vaccines that deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Pfizer’s supply chain supports the research, development and manufacturing process by providing flexibility and access to technologies necessary to meet our commitment to patients We are committed to using suppliers that demonstrate strong performance in Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) management.
- Environmental Sustainability
We recognize that environmental issues can result in profound societal and public health impacts. Our company purpose—Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives—guides our environmental sustainability priorities, with a focus on climate impact mitigation, conservation of resources, and the reduction of waste arising from our operations.
- Facility Investments
We continue to invest in the groundbreaking science and technology needed to discover tomorrow’s life-saving treatments for patients who need them the most. Our research, development, and manufacturing facilities across the country are fostering next-generation healthcare innovation while creating 30,000 U.S.-based jobs.
- Fighting Misinformation
We are dedicated to helping people find accurate, science-based information as they make healthcare decisions that impact their lives.
- Global Impact
All patients should have access to the medicines they need. Through our partnerships with global health institutions and implementation of novel pricing structures–including donations where appropriate–we blend philanthropy and business approaches to increase access to our medicines and vaccines where they’re needed most.
Multicultural Health Equity Collective
Innovation in Medicine Delivery
- Health & Safety
We deliver scientific breakthroughs through the relentless collaboration of our talented workforce. Therefore, ensuring the health, safety and well-being of our workforce is critical to delivering our purpose. We continue to advance a comprehensive occupational injury and illness prevention program that enables engagement and productivity.
- Human Rights
We’re committed to conducting business in an ethical and responsible manner. This includes respecting internationally recognized human rights throughout our operations.
- Intellectual Property
The Intellectual Property Principles for Advancing Cures and Therapies (IP PACT) is a groundbreaking, unified declaration of 10 key Intellectual Property (IP) principles. Driven by members of the innovative biopharmaceutical industry, it affirms our strong commitment to innovation and to keeping the needs of patients at the heart of our IP practice
Health Policies
We advance medical innovation and distribute medicines that might not otherwise be available to underserved communities.
Our People
Associate Research Fellow and Group Leader, Chemical Development Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Senior Vice President of Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research and Development
Senior Director, Oncology Medicinal Chemistry Synthesis and Analytical Group
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Internal Medicine Research Unit
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Associate Research Fellow and Group Leader, Chemical Development Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Senior Vice President of Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research and Development
Senior Director, Oncology Medicinal Chemistry Synthesis and Analytical Group
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Internal Medicine Research Unit
Associate Research Fellow and Group Leader, Chemical Development Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Senior Vice President of Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research and Development
Senior Director, Oncology Medicinal Chemistry Synthesis and Analytical Group
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Internal Medicine Research Unit
Show More
Associate Research Fellow and Group Leader, Chemical Development Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Senior Vice President of Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research and Development
Senior Director, Oncology Medicinal Chemistry Synthesis and Analytical Group
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Internal Medicine Research Unit
