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Pfizer's Global Health Fellows Program: Leveraging Colleagues’ Expertise to Help Improve Healthcare Access Around the World
Global Health Fellows (GHF) is Pfizer’s signature skills-based volunteering program, empowering colleagues to lend their skills and expertise to global health partners in underserved communities around the world. For over 20 years, the program has helped to strengthen health systems and close the health equity gap in communities that need it most. Through the program, Pfizer colleagues have participated in pro bono consulting projects across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S., where they...
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Not for Granted: Pediatric Immunization Through Experts’ Lens
New survey fielded by Excellence in Pediatrics Institute, with support from Pfizer, aims to uncover challenges and find solutions to gaps in pediatric vaccination rates in Europe
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Bridging Global Gaps in Hemophilia Care
Pfizer is proud of its commitment to advancing hemophilia care for more than 40 years, dating back to the introduction of recombinant therapies. But while there has been transformative progress as well as advances in the hemophilia treatment landscape during this time, there is still work to be done to ensure more patients receive the best care.Collaboration is an essential component of our efforts to increase access to treatment and bring breakthroughs to people with hemophilia and bleeding...
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This Rotational R&D Program Allows Young Scientists to Experiment in Their Careers
Young scientists face some tough decisions when they graduate from college. Will they use their degree to enter a science-related field? Go to grad school? Forge a new path entirely?At Pfizer, a two-year program allows a handful of recent graduates to “try out” different jobs across the drug development process and learn more about career choices — and themselves. Associates accepted to the R&D Rotational Program immerse themselves in four rotations of their choosing for six months each. “I see...
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Pfizer's Multicultural Health Equity Collective Marks 10 Years of Progress
Marginalized communities in the United States have faced generations of health inequities due to systemic discrimination embedded into our healthcare system. Life expectancy in the U.S., for instance, masks significant racial and ethnic disparities – the average life expectancy for non-Hispanic American Indians or Alaska Natives is seven years lower than it is for non-Hispanic whites.1
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The Importance of Returning Clinical Trial Data to Participants
Clinical trial participants are at the heart of medical research, and it’s with their help that Pfizer is able to bring life-changing treatments to patients.But, until recently, clinical trial sponsors like Pfizer have not been equipped to provide participants with their own personal clinical trial data when a trial ends. Pfizer’s team of clinical trial experts have worked for many years to change that by launching the Clinical Trial Participant Data Return Initiative.This first-of-its-kind...
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A Billion Doses Delivered: 3 Lessons from the Fight Against Trachoma
Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images for ITI Imagine an infection that causes your eyelids to turn inward, so that your lashes—intended to protect your eyes—scrape against the sensitive outer surface of your eye every time you blink. The pain is excruciating and constant. Your eyes water. Your lashes scratch and scar your cornea, the clear tissue covering your eye. Your vision becomes increasingly hazy. That’s reality for nearly two million people. According to the World Health Organization (WHO...
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Operation Eradication: The Global Health Community Comes Together to Defeat Meningitis by 2030
Bacterial meningitis strikes fast. Within hours, a fever, headache, nausea, and stiff neck can lead to brain damage, hearing loss, and other permanent disabilities, and potentially even death.1,2 Meningitis stems from infection in the fluid around the brain and spinal cord, causing inflammation to the membranes surrounding them, called meninges.1,3 Bacterial meningitis is the most common form of the illness. As its name suggests, bacteria like Haemophilus influenzae (type B), Streptococcus...
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Three Pfizer Partnerships to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine into African Countries and Vaccinations into Arms
In 2020, as Pfizer and BioNTech were still developing the COVID-19 vaccine, Julie Jenson was thinking about how to distribute that vaccine to every country around the world, regardless of that country’s means. Jenson, who is Director of International Product Access for Pfizer’s Global Health and Social Impact Team, knew even in those early days that the ultracold storage demands and shipping requirements of the vaccine could pose challenges in reaching people living in remote areas of low- and...
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How One Woman’s Feeling of Helplessness Launched an Initiative to Hire Refugees
The images, unfortunately, have been too common for far too long: people young and old, refugees whose lives have been upended by forces beyond their control, fleeing their homes for safety. Watching it as it unfolds can make someone feel powerless. But what can one person do to make a difference? That was the question Mona Babury asked herself in August 2021 when the Taliban seized control in Afghanistan. From her home near New York City, as she watched footage of Afghan refugees, the trauma...
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Woman-Made: Hear from Women at Pfizer With Careers in Modern Manufacturing
On and off the manufacturing floor, Penny, Jenny and Kat go above and beyond to make and deliver medicines for patients in need. They are innovators with different ideas, experiences and points of view. Hear about their passion for their work and what advice they have for the next generation of manufacturers. “It’s one of the most fulfilling careers”: Penny Pyle, Aseptic Processing Team Leader in McPherson, Kansas WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR JOB? I love my job. I lead a dedicated team...
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