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Behind the Migraine: Pfizer Colleagues Share Their Stories
We’ve all heard it before: “Migraine is more than just a headache.” But is it really understood? Some talk about the burden of migraine—the blur of pain, vice-like pressure, nausea, insomnia, and even vertigo—but most don’t. Migraine is a disabling neurological disease with different symptoms and treatment approaches compared to other headache disorders. An estimated 40 million people in the United States and more than 1 billion people around the world experience migraine attacks.1,2 So, at...
Pfizer’s Plans to Celebrate Juneteenth 2023
Credit: Lightship Dedication to nurturing diversity, equity, and inclusion is crucial at Pfizer, as it is for many businesses. In fact, equity is one of Pfizer’s four core values, and we strive for it for those within Pfizer and for patients around the globe. It’s in this spirit that Pfizer is proud to not only recognize Juneteenth and its historical significance, but also celebrate it through our actions and our engagement with the community. Long observed by many for many years, Juneteenth...
2023 Pride Journal—Stronger Together
2023 Pride Journal—Celebrating the LGBTQ+ Community With Pride We are honored to share the 17th anniversary edition of our Pride Journal—a platform where our LGBTQIA+ Pfizer Colleagues and allies can share personal experiences of struggles, triumph, and their hope for the future in honor of Pride Month. Read the stories that have provided inspiration to so many: Dear LGBTQ+ community, friends, and allies, I’m honored to welcome you to Pfizer’s 2023 Pride Journal. Let me start by sharing my...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pfizer's Commitment to Disability Inclusion and Why It Matters at Work
When Rady Johnson contemplates the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, he thinks of his son, Michael. Michael, who is 31, has worked as an office assistant at a travel agency for about 10 years. In the summer, he also works on a maintenance crew at a beach. “He's just the hardest worker that you'll ever see,” says Rady, who is Pfizer's Chief Compliance, Quality & Risk Officer. Michael also lives with an intellectual disability. Rady and his wife, Diane, adopted Michael from...
Thrive with Pride
2022 Pride Journal - Celebrating the LGBTQ+ Community With PrideWe are honored to share the 16th anniversary edition of our Pride Journal - a platform where our LGBTQ+ Pfizer Colleagues and allies can share personal experiences of struggles, triumph, and their hope for the future in honor of Pride Month. Read the stories that have provided inspiration to so many: Rod MacKenzie (He/Him)Former Chief Development Officer NYHQ 2022 Pride Journal ForewordIn 2010, I wrote an article for the Out Pfizer...
How Pfizer is fostering meaningful growth for every colleague, everywhere
Redefining Career Growth at PfizerAt Pfizer, we’re transforming and redefining ‘growth’ for our colleagues. To live and deliver on our purpose: breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, we need to continually grow ourselves and those around us. Doing this – while thinking big and pursuing bold goals – will help us to bring medicines and vaccines forward that can radically alter the course of a disease. We now see growth as a part of our DNA: We grow every day. In practice, this means promoting...
Calling All Creatives! We need YOU to design for science!
More of us than ever need science to restore not just the health of our loved ones, but life as we remember it. The power of science is the key to unlocking the answers to the world’s most challenging medical questions. Embodied by our “Science Will Win” campaign, Pfizer is at the forefront of the vital research being conducted to find treatments, cures and preventive medicines to the diseases that currently confound us.Low health literacy can be one of the biggest barriers to improving the...
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