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Events in NYC and Italy Spotlight Disability Inclusion

When you’re in the business of breakthroughs, you want to work with the best. While great talent comes from all backgrounds, they don’t all have the same access to professional opportunities or to environments where they’ll thrive. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, data from 2022 showed that “across all age groups, persons with a disability were much less likely to be employed than those with no disability.” In keeping with our core value of equity, Pfizer recently held two...

Global and U.S. Agencies Declare End of COVID-19 Emergency

On May 5, more than three years since COVID-19 was designated as a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the global Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19.1 Following an initial announcement earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared the same for the United States, effective on May 11.2 Here are three important points to keep in mind as we enter this post-emergency period: COVID-19 is still here The Public Health...

Pfizer Sets New Ambition: Changing a Billion Lives a Year by 2027

In April, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla stood centerstage at Pfizer’s brand-new Hudson Yards headquarters in New York, NY and unveiled the company’s brand-new “purpose blueprint.” Pfizer’s Purpose Blueprint 2.0 is the updated and upgraded set of guidelines and goalposts that Pfizer and its employees will be working within and striving to achieve over the next few years. An evolution of the previous Purpose Blueprint, implemented in 2019, the Purpose Blueprint 2.0 consists of five “Core Business...

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Pfizer’s Biopharma Global Chief Marketing Officer Drew Panayiotou is ‘Radically Obsessed’ with Listening to Patients

For Drew Panayiotou, working at Pfizer comes with an enormous perk: the potential to change the world. That’s why he took the role as the company’s first Biopharma Global Chief Marketing Officer. “Our organization has the power to bring breakthroughs for billions,” says Panayiotou, who joined Pfizer in the fall of 2022. “My job as CMO is to help our organization better understand our healthcare providers and patients so that we can meet them where they are with the information they need at the...

Mayor Adams Joins Pfizer CEO for Grand Opening of New NYC Headquarters

Pfizer has a new home!Yesterday morning, we held the official grand opening of our brand-new Hudson Yards location, an office tower located at 66 Hudson Boulevard (The Spiral) at Hudson Yards of Manhattan, complete with a ribbon-cutting to officially open the facility.CEO Albert Bourla was joined at the ceremony by New York City Mayor Eric Adams; members of the Pfizer leadership team, including Yolanda Lyle, Vice President, Executive Operations and NYHQ Site Lead, and Sally Susman, Chief...

Improving COVID-19 Vaccine Access in Partnership with Amref Health Africa

A community member while receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in Uganda. Photo credit: Amref Health Africa.More than three years into the pandemic, for some, access to care to help prevent COVID-19 may only mean a 10-minute trip to a doctor's office or pharmacy. For many others, however, vaccines and basic healthcare, including efforts that help to treat and prevent COVID-19, may still be out of reach.Despite advances to improve COVID-19 vaccine access, disparities remain. Nearly three in four people...

Inspiring Leaders: Sally Susman Pens Book About 10 Principles for Breaking Through

In 2020, as the world shut down during a global pandemic and looked to science for a medical miracle, Pfizer’s Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Sally Susman, found herself at the center of one of the most urgent, high-stakes public dialogues of our times. She set an intention for herself and her team: break through the noise and fear by making complex science accessible, building confidence in Pfizer’s lifesaving vaccine and, in the process, changing their assumptions about “Big Pharma.” Three...

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'I Choose to Be Positive': A Metastatic Melanoma Story Guided by Hope

In 2010, Mindi noticed that a mole on the left side of her chest was bleeding. She felt concerned, but not panicked; after all, the air outside in Salt Lake City, UT had been dry, the 22-year-old reasoned. It could just be dry skin. Still, she wanted to take the proper precautions, so she made an appointment with a dermatologist. When the doctor suggested they take a wait-and-see approach, Mindi wasn't comfortable with it. She wanted to be proactive. "I know my body best," she says. "My gut...

Pfizer Statement on Results of Fourth Annual Pay Equity Study Among Colleagues Worldwide

NEW YORK, N.Y., February 28, 2023 – Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) announced today that, for the fourth consecutive year, an independent compensation expert confirmed equitable pay practices for employees at Pfizer.The study assessed pay equity for gender worldwide and for minorities in the United States based on compensation data, including base pay and bonuses. The study measured the difference between similar groups of employees when adjusting for factors such as role, grade, job level, and location...

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The Story of Kendall Square Orchestra, a Symphony of Scientists

In Cambridge, Mass., Kendall Square is where some of the country’s top minds solve global problems. The area is a super-magnet for renowned biomedical and technology businesses. In 2009, a consulting group dubbed it “the most innovative square mile on earth.”1 It’s also a place where music unites, entertains, and maybe even heals. Since 2018, scientists and technology professionals have come together as musicians in Kendall Square Orchestra (K2O). Each season, they perform at community events...

In Their Own Voices: A Song By and For Those Touched by Rare Disease

Although individually they are classified as “rare,” considered together, rare diseases affect as many as 1 in 10 people in the United States.1 Globally, rare diseases impact 3.5%-5.9% of the world’s population.2 That’s one of the reasons that Rare Disease Day, which occurs annually on the last day of February, is so important. It’s an opportunity to raise awareness for the many people who are less often in the spotlight. This year, Pfizer wanted to do something special to honor rare disease...

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Three Principles of Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare

Most people already use artificial intelligence (AI) in their daily lives, sometimes without even thinking about it as being AI-driven. Global positioning systems (GPS) are AI-based navigation applications, for instance, that help us find the quickest route between Points A and B and suggest alternate routes when an accident has jammed up traffic. Artificial intelligence speeds up online shopping by remembering our shopping preferences and recommending similar and complementary products. Artifi...