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Meet The People Of PGS: Vanessa

Through the “People of PGS” series, we continue to spotlight the names and faces behind the great work we do in PGS. Next up is Vanessa, Site Leader at Meridian in St. Louis, who also has competed on Team USA’s Dragon Boat Racing team!While Vanessa started her career designing high-speed manufacturing and packing machinery for another industry, today she is proud to say that her role at Pfizer and her time in the pharma industry give her the opportunity to help patients.Vanessa’s 22-year pharma...

Meet the People of PGS: Daniela

Through the “People of PGS” series, we spotlight the names and faces behind the great work we do in PGS.  Next up is Daniela, a PGS colleague who recently completed a one-year assignment as part of the CEO Action for Racial Equity Fellowship Program. Most people would consider Daniela an expert in Supply Chain, thanks to her 16-year career working across the pharmaceutical industry, including five years at Pfizer. But when a unique career opportunity presented itself, Daniela had the courage to...

The science behind hiring and interviewing

We’re not the first business to discover how technology increases diversity, but we’ve been among the first to adopt it and make it work.Here’s the background. HireVue is an AI-driven platform which helps us consider more applicants, drive consistency, reduce any unconscious bias and make better decisions. From diversifying our talent pool to making interviews structured, it ensures we won’t rely on assumptions and could increase our diversity by up to 16%. Just this week, all of our early...

Meet The People Of PGS: Connor

Through the “People of PGS” series, we spotlight the names and faces behind the great work we do in PGS. Next up is Connor, a Senior Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Associate, who turned his passion for nature into a rewarding career. For Connor, no two days are exactly the same – and that’s just how he likes it. At the start of the week, he could be reviewing storm water mitigation practices at a construction site, and at the end of the week, he could be in a manufacturing clean room...

Meet The People Of PGS: John

Through the “People of PGS” series, we continue to spotlight the names and faces behind the great work we do in PGS. Next up is John, a Digital Business Analyst in Ireland who served as an official at the Tokyo Olympics this summer.  As a Digital Business Analyst, John ensures the Pfizer Digital systems at a Pfizer facility in Ireland run smoothly.  He works with stakeholders from across the site to understand their business requirements and collaborates with Pfizer Digital to identify solutions...

Purpose & Ideals

Net Zero by 2040: How Pfizer is Fighting Climate Change with Ambitious Science Based Goals

In 2015, on the eve of the Paris Agreement, Pfizer was one of the first companies in the world to seek and gain approval of its greenhouse gas emission reduction goal from the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). Since then, leading scientific researchers, together with coalitions such as SBTi, have urged the private and public sectors to increase their commitments to address the growing urgency of the climate crisis. The science is irrefutable; action is required to meet the goals of the Pa...

Reasons to Reject H.R. 3

Making sure that medicines are accessible and affordable for patients is a goal we all share. But the dangerous policy outlined in H.R. 3 could threaten the future of groundbreaking cures.The policy would allow government “negotiations” on the price of medicines for Medicare. Moreover, this misguided policy would repeal a key provision of the Medicare Part D program – the noninterference clause – that protects coverage and access to medicines for seniors and people with disabilities. Taking away...

Purpose & Ideals

How The Pfizer Foundation is Partnering to Improve Health Outcomes for Black Youth

A conversation with Dr. Clyde Glenn, President of the Essie B. & William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living In Sunflower County, Mississippi, one of the poorest counties in the nation, The Pfizer Foundation partners at The Glenn Family Foundation (GFF) are working to improve health and life outcomes by addressing the social determinants of health impacting this community.  As defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, social determinants of health are conditions in the...

Continuing to Follow the Science: An Open Letter from Pfizer Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla

Last December, Pfizer and our collaborator, BioNTech, achieved our goal of creating the first COVID-19 vaccine to receive Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – and we were thrilled when other companies’ vaccines were subsequently authorized, as well. Together with our industry peers and the cooperation of the broader global health community, we’ve helped protect more than two billion lives around the world and counting. With more than 1.5 billion doses...

Why Foreign Drug Pricing Policies Don’t Work

Congress is considering passing a drug pricing policy that could threaten the future of groundbreaking cures! The policy would adopt similar policies that foreign countries use to restrict access to medicine.There are major problems with this policy:It puts innovation at risk. The policy could lead to an estimated 60 fewer new treatments over the next three decades. A new study by the Congressional Budget Office found that it would result in fewer groundbreaking treatments for patients in...

Get to Know Our Breakthrough Fellows!

At Pfizer, we are so excited to welcome our first class of Breakthrough Fellows to our organization. We believe these students have so much to offer as they grow into the next generation of Pfizer leadership. To showcase the amazing talent in this program, we spoke to the Fellows themselves to learn more about their first few weeks as Pfizer. Get to know some of our Breakthrough Fellows below!

Meet The People Of PGS: Craig

Through the “People of PGS” series, we continue to spotlight the names and faces behind the great work we do in PGS. Next up is Craig, an Engineering & Maintenance Manager in Sanford, who is also a veteran of the U.S. Navy and an advocate for military veterans reentering the workforce.Over the course of his 20-year career at Pfizer, Craig has spent most of his time in manufacturing roles; that is until 2016, when he took on a developmental challenge – to bring his manufacturing expertise to...