Pfizer's Salomon Azoulay And Bing Yan On Prevenar, Partnering In China Post-Lipitor: An Interview With PharmAsia News (Part 1 of 2)

Pfizer Inc. CEO Ian Read recently affirmed Pfizer's commitment to emerging markets, choosing to keep its established products unit in-house even as he looks to divest non-core assets like the animal health and nutrition business units. Just one week after the announcement of Read's plan, Salomon Azoulay, Pfizer's senior VP for medical & development emerging markets, and Pfizer China Vaccines Lead Bing Yan sat down with PharmAsia News' Shanghai Bureau to talk about Pfizer's blockbuster vaccines Prevenar and Prevenar 13 - marketed in the U.S. as Prevnar - in what will be the world's largest vaccines market. Azoulay was in town to explore partnerships in China, a topic he also discusses in this interview, as well as the importance of physician education in emerging markets.