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**Exhibit 99.1**

 

| For immediate release: | Media Contact:    |
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| September 25, 2009     | Joan Campion      |
|                   | (212) 733-2798    |
|                   | Investor Contact: |
|                   | Suzanne Harnett   |
|                   | (212) 733-8009    |

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**Frances D.  Fergusson And John P. Mascotte****Elected To  Pfizer’s Board Of Directors**

NEW    YORK, NY, September  25 - Pfizer Inc today announced the election of Frances D. Fergusson, Ph.D. and  John P. Mascotte to its Board of Directors.   Dr. Fergusson and Mr. Mascotte, current members of the Board of  Directors of Wyeth, will join the Pfizer Board upon the closing of Pfizer’s  pending acquisition of Wyeth in accordance with the terms of the merger  agreement.

Dr. Fergusson is President Emeritus  and professor of art at Vassar   College, where she became  the ninth president in 1986 and retired from that position after twenty years  in July 2006.  Prior to joining Vassar,  she was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bucknell University  from 1982 – 1986.  She was also on the Board  of Overseers of Harvard University from 2002, concluding her service as its  president in 2008. 

Dr. Fergusson has been a Director  of Mattel since 2006.  She was a Director  of HSBC Bank USA  from 1990-2008, and a Director of CH Energy Inc. from 1993-2002. 

Dr. Fergusson is a fellow of the American Academy  of Arts and Sciences and is on the Board of Directors of The Getty Trust, the  Board of Trustees of The School of American Ballet, Second Stage Theatre, the National Humanities Center  and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. 

 Dr. Fergusson earned a bachelor's  degree in history from Wellesley College, with special honors in art history, and masters  and doctoral degrees in art history at Harvard University.  She was named a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and a Radcliffe  Institute Fellow for 1974-1975.  She  holds honorary doctorates from the University  of London, University  of Hartford, and Bard College.  Dr. Fergusson is a recipient of the Founders’  Award of the Society of Architectural Historians. 

Mr. Mascotte is the retired  President and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, in which  capacity he served between 1997 and 2001.   Prior to joining Blue Cross Blue Shield, Mr. Mascotte served as Chairman  of Johnson & Higgins of Missouri  from January 1996, and from 1983-1995 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer  of The Continental Corporation, which merged with CNA in 1995. 

Mr. Mascotte served as a Director  of Hallmark Cards, Inc. and its subsidiary Crown Media Holdings, Inc., where he  was the Chairman of their respective audit committees. 

Mr. Mascotte is the former Chairman  of Common Cents, Inc., a national non-profit focused on the social development  of children in our nation's primary schools.   He has been a Trustee of the Hall Foundation and is a Trustee Emeritus  of The Aspen Institute. He is the Chairman of the Aspen Community Foundation  and until last year was a member of the Board of the National Catholic Reporter.  Mr. Mascotte is a former Trustee of The New  York Public Library and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

Mr. Mascotte received a bachelor’s  degree in philosophy and accounting from St.    Joseph’s College and an LLB from the University of  Virginia Law School.

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