Big Think

Question: What is your role at Pfizer?

Chudy Nduaka:  So, it's certainly, as associate director of clinical development, I help to develop drugs, medicines that are important to the community, the global community. I manage large trials, what we call Phase 3 trials. And essentially the medical management and monitoring of these studies, I and several other clinicians are responsible for, and we develop strategies on how to include some of our drugs or strategies on how to manage a new trials, so that we can have these medicines available to the community, to the people, the patients, that need them. So that's essentially what I do here at Pfizer. But you know, I almost cannot separate what I do also from the philanthropy side, because it's also an extension of my work here. In philanthropy, I also, with the rest of my team, make these medicines available to people that need them. And not just Pfizer, but all the companies, are giving us their products to distribute to communities that have need for it. So in one way, in one job, you know, in helping develop this medicine, and in the other job, in helping to provide these medicines that we develop to the community. So it's a win-win and I enjoy it.

Recorded on: 6/25/08