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Volume 1, July 2020

Hello there, What’s Inside ?

We are back with yet another release of the Chronicles. ✓ Know Our Pfizer
Thank you for your overwhelming response to our first release, this ✓ Let us celebrate,
just helps us do more good work. This series is exclusively an
informal read or rather a culmination of thoughts from our creative Collaboration!
writers in the India and Manila SPA teams. It is an opportunity for ✓ Knowledge Sharing
us to allow the global teams and the programmers we work across,
know us better and understand the interests of the team here. The Sessions
expectation is to keep it simple and interesting and we welcome as ✓ Multilingual
many colleagues to contribute to our series.
Programming
July has been quite a busy month for most of us with S1 ✓ Campus Corridors to
goals review, S2 goals setting, a bunch of deliverables,
anniversaries, milestones and so many more. And as rightly noted Corporate
– the edition is out a little later than planned – just because we Conference Rooms
could not effectively plan out all that was on the plate and the ✓ Hi-5 – Up High !
release timelines. It happens, does it not? When we have too many ✓ Learning about you
things to cater to and what should we sometimes choose and not and me !
choose, what should we prioritize. Well, the need for balance – in ✓ World Nature
the physical state, in the mental mind, at workplace, or in life in Conservation Day !
general, is imminent. Balance – is a beautiful word. One would ✓ July Mash-up
resonate to this famous quote – “Life is like a bicycle- if you want a
balance – you must keep moving”. But what is the right pace, what Keep flipping until
is the right route, what is the right step forward, these may be the end to find out
questions we can ponder over. What not has changed for most of what's in the
us in this little span of few months, and probably many of us felt as "SPA Jar of
though we were simply knocked out from our bicycle that we were Positivity “ and do
riding. And sometimes this knock off is good for us to reflect and notice our
review and get back to a better balance or let me call it harmonize environment
ourselves with the world around us. We have a long way to go, but themed
before – let us pause. backgrounds

This was a precursor for our upcoming edition in the 1
Chronicles. In addition to the topics of efficiencies and
automations, we will also bring some thoughts across aspects on
wellness and wellbeing, so keep a watch out. And now, what’s in
store this time – a lot of exciting coverage on our work, a round
table chit chat conversation, some interesting cultural intricacies
for you to know us better, a newly introduced programming
column, and the rest is for you to discover. Keep reading and enjoy!

- Priya

KNOW OUR PFIZER - SYNTHESIS:
TAFAMIDIS
4-Amino-3-hydroxybenzoic acid (AHBA) is
Tafamidis, sold under the brand names Vyndaqel reacted with HCl (3 to 6 M equivalents) in
and Vyndamax among others, is a medication methanol (8 to 9 L/kg). The pH of the reaction
used to delay loss of peripheral nerve function in mixture is adjusted with aqueous HCl to yield 2-
adults with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (3,5-dichloro-phenyl)-benzoxazole-6-carboxylic
(FAP). It works by stabilizing the protein acid, the free acid of Tafamidis.
transthyretin. In people with FAP these strands
separate and form clumps that harm nerves. It is MECHANISM OF ACTION:
also used for the treatment of heart disease
(cardiomyopathy) caused by transthyretin VYNDAQEL (Tafamidis meglumine) and
mediated amyloidosis (ATTR-CM). VYNDAMAX (Tafamidis) are oral transthyretin
stabilizers that selectively bind to transthyretin,
BACKGROUND: stabilizing the tetramer of the transthyretin
transport protein and slowing the formation of
The laboratory of Jeffery W. Kelly began looking amyloid that causes ATTR-CM.
for ways to inhibit TTR fibril formation in the
1990s.Tafamidis was eventually discovered by DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION:
Kelly's team using a structure-based drug design
strategy. In 2003, Kelly co-founded a company The recommended dosage is either VYNDAQEL
called FoldRx and developed Tafamidis through 80 mg (four 20-mg Tafamidis meglumine
submitting an application for marketing approval capsules) orally once daily or VYNDAMAX 61 mg
in Europe in early 2010. FoldRx was acquired by (one 61-mg Tafamidis capsule) orally once daily.
Pfizer later that year. These are not substitutable on a per mg basis.

Tafamidis was approved by the European REFERENCE:
Medicines Agency (EMA) in November 2011, to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafamidis
delay peripheral nerve impairment in adults with
transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis. The https://www.fda.gov/media/126283/download
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected
the application for marketing approval in 2012 B3461087 – Non-Interventional Study
and requested further clinical trials. In May 2019,
the FDA approved two Tafamidis preparations, B3461045,B3461028 – Interventional Studies
Vyndaqel (Tafamidis meglumine) and Vyndamax
(Tafamidis), for the treatment of transthyretin Content by – Divya Vani Akkina 2
mediated cardiomyopathy (ATT-CM). The drug
was approved in Japan in 2013.

The FDA approved Tafamidis meglumine based
primarily on evidence from a clinical trial
(NCT01994889) of 441 adult patients. The trial
was conducted at 60 sites in various countries.

The EMA designated Tafamidis an orphan
medicine and the FDA designated Tafamidis
meglumine an orphan drug.

Prog Team in India: Periasamy K, Divya Vani
Akkina , Rajesh Babu Jyesta, Ram
Kishan Rengaswamy

Let us Celebrate ~
Collaboration!

It's a kick start to a Jazzy
July as we announce a
step forward to
collaboration across India
and Manila teams - Our
colleagues in Manila have
relentlessly worked for
the last many years
supporting the various
biosimilars, commercial
products and legacy
Hospira studies.

Now it is time to be a truly structured and globalized team.
We begin with Jeli - leading to support studies as SPL in the
I&I portfolio space, Josie supporting the Standards team,
Bett supporting Rare diseases, and Jimmy on to Vaccines
and PAC. This should help us organize ourselves in an
appropriate structure. Let us take a moment to thank all of
them and acknowledge the leadership for aligning in
thought to ensuring a global set up. Let us together share
the space of learning and growth across the globe !

Junibel Ramos De Leon | Jimmy Gil Pelantic | Ma Bettina
Asanias | Josephine Cura Domingo |Christian Reyes Russel

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KNOWLEDGE
SHARING
SESSIONS

With an objective to share knowledge across different
streams within SPA and to enhance the collaboration among SPA
India - Manila teams, we have been organizing a knowledge
sharing platform by the name – KSS that stands for Knowledge
Sharing sessions. These sessions were initiated in 2019, and
involves active participation across the whole SPA team, and now
is open to our statistician friends as well. The session chairs are
Vamshi Mohan Gande and Dhivya Kanagaraj. KSS has covered
multiple topics in the space of Standards and Portfolio, CDARS &
pMDR, Volume 3 and ISAM and key areas of digitalization like
effective usage of MS Teams.

To encourage the presenters, we have been
practicing a concept of awarding the KSS
presenter of the month or quarter, depending
on the number of topics presented. This is
done through a voting system. For the month
of June Ashok Kumar Dash won the Best
Presenter Award. The topic he presented was
– VISUAL BI Analytics.

The topic focused on BI – Business Intelligence, its importance,
applications, importance of data Warehouse and the major
component being the use of Microsoft Power BI in data
visualization. The other topic which was also amongst the favorite
choice was the Volume 3 SPA Review Work by the SDTM team. 4

Jayashree V, Smriti Anand, Suvitha Subramanyam, Jagadeesh KB and Vikram S

'The hardest programming language you ever learn will
be your second’
-Everybody, probably

As programmers, we need to stay adept and up to date. That
includes being open to learning new programming languages. It can
feel frustrating to transition between languages, but hopefully we
can keep challenging ourselves?

Real time use cases with Python and R in Clinical Domain:
Many Leading Pharmaceutical and CROs have started to invest in
other programming languages like R and have also inclined towards
exploring other programming languages (Python). The FDA once
stated on usage of Statistical Software, that “The computer software
used for data management and statistical analysis should be
reliable, and documentation of appropriate software testing
procedures should be available”. Although current uses of R and
python is restricted only 10% of the submission activities, there is
other research application, forecasting, Machine Learning, plots and
specific statistical analysis for which R/python is used. However SAS
is dominating in the CDISC standards of submission for Dataset/TFL.
Currently R - Foundation has put forth a guidance for using R in
Regulated Clinical Trial based on the guidelines provided by United
States Food and Drug Administration (hereafter referred to as the
FDA) and the International Conference on Harmonization.

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Ever wondered why are we still using SAS? Why we are reluctant in
using the R/Python programming language, despite being an open
source?

SAS has over 40,000 customers worldwide and holds largest market
share in advanced analytics. Many companies have been using SAS
for 30 years, and they have automated the whole process of analysis
and have written millions of lines of working code. To convert all the
stable reporting system from SAS to R/Python, it may cost 50-100
times more. SAS's biggest advantage is that the code released are
validated whereas python's package that are available in the marked
are mostly open sources which holds vulnerability in data leakage
and security issues.

So, should we adapt to R/Python, because SAS is an expensive
tool?

Not really, The SAS licenses are affordable for the industry and
enterprises hold on to SAS despite the cost, because SAS keeps their
codes up to date.

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Then, how else can we nurture the need for other languages?

R has the most advanced graphical capabilities as compared to SAS. Python
is the most popular choice for programming language not just by data
scientists, but also by software developers. It is a versatile language that is
supported by a large number of libraries that allow you to work on several
fields like data-wrangling, data filtering, data transformation, predictive
analytics, machine learning, etc.

What Integrated Development Putting it all together:
Environments can I use?
So now we know R and Python can
be integrated in many ways:
The py and r in Jupyter actually
represent Python and R! Jupyter
notebooks can seamlessly run both
R and Python functionalities. But
we can also use the rpy2 package in
Python which loads R data and
function by running an embedded
R.
The reticulate() package in R, allows
you to run Python codes as chunks
within an R markdown document,
simultaneously with R code chunks;
this makes reporting very efficient.

Where does SAS come into all of this?

The SASMarkdown package in R can create RMarkdown documents that

execute some simple SAS codes. As for loading SAS datasets; there are many

R Packages - foreign, haven, sasxport and sas7bdat are a few. SAS is capable

of loading R data and expressions using the Rlang option and proc iml to

launch a SAS/IML interface.

The Python package SASPy can load SAS data, but it needs some specific

configuration packages not available at Pfizer for now. Running Python in

SAS is even trickier. Proc fcmp is the statement that can load Python

datasets but it requires the packages within the Python code to be pre-

loaded. 7

Stay tuned! We'll be back next month with more programming tips and tricks!

Campus Corridors to Corporate Conference Rooms -
A roundtable chit-chat with our young minds

How many of us have had the wonderful opportunity to be placed right from a campus,
at the last year of our school/college right into an office space? And on the other side,
how many of us have had to wait in those lines at job fairs, and supply resumes at
every counter, and wait for a call, each day. From Job portals to Linked In connections
many of us travelled way to far to establish our careers, the road travelled has not been
easy, yet memorable.
Our first roundtable chit chat series was on the topic of college to corporate
transitions. The participants of this series were a bunch of young programmers – across
India and Manila teams, who had this experience of campus selection and drives and
the opportunities they have had in this journey. Here is a summary of this dialogue.

Participants: Jeffy Sarto, Likhita Kolli, Ma Bettina Asanias, Smriti Anand, Akshara
Venkatesh, Jagadeesh KB, Vikram S, Vipeen Randave, Ekta Khapekar and Trina Sen
Scribe – Poushali Gupta

Q: Can you share some of your experiences, transitioning into a
professional world from a college campus? And to those who particularly

embarked on a career journey with Pfizer, how was this experience?

Trina – When we were recruited, we were 17 of us from
college, the difference was not about the people, but the
environment, we were in. As a student we were not used
to sitting for long time at a stretch at sessions, and we
had breaks. At office, we saw how time management was
important and how we had to plan ourselves better.
From getting dressed in a professional way to organizing
ourselves, we learnt a lot. It was more like going in from a
relaxed to a much-structured environment.

Akshara - Actually, after joining Pfizer, I feel that we 8
had an ample time for preparing under the
environment and transitioning ourselves. We had 3
months to practice programming and get used to the
industry and the people. That was very helpful, and I
felt that was an advantage for us where as if you are
put into a job after one month of your training also, it
might be a little harder to catch up other processes.

Campus Corridors to Office Conference Rooms- A
roundtable chit-chat with our young minds

Q: Launching your career with one of the world’s biggest pharma, how
important is this to you ?

Smriti – Pharma was not on my radar at first. Of course, anybody who is thinking
of going into pharma is going to look at one of the absolute giants like Pfizer.
There is certain stability that you get when you are in big sponsor company. That
stability allows you to bring your own strength to your job that you do. We have
been surrounded by people who have encouraged us to use what you know
before, what knowledge you have, what we are good at, and to improve our job,
to modify what we do. We don’t have to keep doing the same thing what others
are doing, we are looking to innovate and do better. So, I think that is one of the
biggest positive of working in a big company like this.

Jagadeesh– I am proud of working at Pfizer. In
my previous organization I did not interact with
my LT. Here I like the environment. Pfizer not
only teaches us professionalism it also speaks on
social issues like Pride, Woman empowerment.
Every work done here is appreciated.

Vikram – In the interview I was asked the
question , “Do you know about Pfizer?”, I
answered , “No” and when I got the job and told
this to my professors, they were amazed and that
is when I realized it was a big deal. Now it feels
good. When I ask my friends, who are working in
some other CROs and what they are learning, I
see my learning graph is steep. We are learning
everything from basics, and that is good.

Ekta – I feel very lucky to be a part of such a renowned company. Working

on coding and datasets is not new for me as I have done internship and it is

an added advantage that I have got to work with the SDTM team at the

beginning of my career. I can gradually move to ADaM and TLFs, and other

interests later. And, as the young worker in team I have so many things to

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Campus Corridors to Office Conference Rooms- A
roundtable chit-chat with our young minds

Q: Do you think such opportunities – campus hiring programs are
effective in other countries – what differences can you draw?

Bettina – We do not have campus hiring. What we do instead that there is a
setup, which is called Job Fair where companies gather, and graduates apply
for job or internship. They stay for three days in college campus and gather
all the resumes. But one of the issues in that kind of setup is that there is lack
of awareness of Pharma industry, like when I was student, I even did not
know that being a stat graduate I can apply for pharma industry.

Smriti –From what I have seen in the US, it is more
of job fair system rather than campus hiring. Since, I
was not particularly down this path, I did net get to
go through that system, but they did not actually
come to campus. I know a lot of people who get
chance in pharma through this job fair, and a lot
many have a struggle to get to this space.

Q: How effective have training /learning sessions been for you in this
journey

Likhita – Training obviously is important, and it should
be effective. When I joined Pfizer the continuous two
months training, on Pfizer tools or programming, did
play a major role and this helped us work faster and
now even the training has improved with time. I also
could see increase in quality at my work. Lastly, I
could say that Learning is a continuous process.

Q: Being the youngest in the teams, are you treated fairly with
opportunities, or do you think there is an unconscious bias.

Vipeen – I am one of the youngest members in

the Standard ADaM team. But I never felt it like

this. Everyone is so friendly, and they treat as

everyone is same. I am even given similar

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Campus Corridors to Office Conference Rooms- A
roundtable chit-chat with our young minds

Q: How has the Pfizer working environment – develop you into what you
are today

Vipeen – In Pfizer, there is a positive working atmosphere. Colleagues are very cheerful.
And the diverse knowledge they have, helps us grow. All the interactive training
sessions, the training materials helped me to grow well. Apart from work, we also
participate in fun activities, the encouragement which is provided by our seniors
helped me a lot to grow.
Trina – What I felt in Pfizer is that we are given an opportunity to speak up on what we
want to do and what we can to do, which gives us more confidence about our
capability also. We can push ourselves.

Q: What are your thoughts on effectively bridging the academia –
industry gap?

Jeffy – Last year I attended a workshop which was
organized by my earlier company and NIPER (National
Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research).
Different people from each line function starting from
drug discovery to marketing, attended. We got to
learn the end to end process. There were a lot of
students who also participated, and they got to learn
from the industry and interacted with us. We came to
learn what a PK scientist does, how medical writing is
done. It was an interactive session. Such
opportunities help us bridge the gap faster and better.

Q: A quick memory scroll with some of the funny incidents during your
journey

Ekta – I remember when I was coming for
interview in Pfizer. It was a scary movement
for me. I woke up at 4 am and I went back to
Mumbai 12.30 am at night. I can’t forget that
moment. But today, I am much more
confident.

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Campus Corridors to Office Conference Rooms- A
roundtable chit-chat with our young minds

Q: Do you have role models in the teams – What are the values you see in
them that you want to inculcate within yourself?

Vipeen – I can’t specifically say one name. But from every member we learn
something different. Like questioning from Vamshi, patience from Mahesh,
Rajavel has always a new solution to a problem, then Bharath is a calm friend and
he guides me, coding from Sharath. I know Nikhil from before and he never gets
irritated with repeated questions.

Q: What is your five-year plan if you have one – How has Pfizer invested
in your personal development?

Bettina – I just realize that I don’t have
a solid 5 years plan, but I want to be a
that type of person a team can depend
on.

Concluding thoughts: A start of a career is a huge step for
any individual, as it sets the pace for their growth in their
professional life. Today the world has advanced, and one must make the best of
the opportunity to keep learning and developing themselves. Hopefully we can
bridge the gap with industry and academia and do a lot more fruitful
collaborations to continue this learning and ensure more opportunities come by
for aspiring young minds.

The concept of a roundtable chit-chat series:
I was always fascinated by round table conversations, when I watched them on
television and internet and at several conferences. An opportunity to express
thoughts across minds which had some similar experiences, enhancing their
experience was interesting. The openness, the ideas, and the feedback allowed
everyone to think more and it was a great opportunity to collaborate. Similar
thoughts led to the birth of these roundtable chit-chat series. An organized set of
questions, a selective group of like-minded individuals, and a roundtable (well, a
virtual one). For the benefit of the SPA community, the recordings will be made
available in the SPA Teams space and a write up on the conversations in the
Chronicles. - Priya (the lead chit-chatter)

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Learning About YOU and ME:

A snippet of India and of the Philippines

“Hi!”, “Hello!”, “Good day!”, these are
words or phrases that we often say when we
greet each other in a language that we all
understand and use to communicate:
English, the universal language as they say.
Very handy when we do business.

But sometimes, it makes you curious how
these phrases are told using the language
spoken in the place you have visited,
intending to visit or if you are naturally
curious about a lot of things.

France’s “Bonjour!”, China’s “Xiexie”,
Korea’s “Saranghae”, Japan’s “Arigatou gozaimasu”: learning these
phrases are not mandatory but it is a step towards learning more about

the culture or at the very least, it may put a smile in the locals’ faces
even with the butchered pronunciation (or that’s what I hope ☺).

India has 122 major languages and 1599 others according to the

Census of India in 2001. The Philippines, on the other hand, have 187

indigenous languages but uses the standardized language Filipino as

the National Language. If we are going to based it on language, we are

different but it’s fascinating how a multitude of differences still brings out

the similarities among people. And for us to learn more about one

another, we have here a few phrases which may come in handy when
we talk with each other. ☺

Tamil Hindi English Filipino

Kaalai Vannakkam Shubh prabhaat Good Magandang
Morning! Umaga!

Eppudi irukeenga? Kaise ho aap? How are you? Kamusta ka?

Nandri. Dhanyavaad Thank you. Salamat po.

Piriyavitai * Alvida* Goodbye. Paalam.

Pathirama irunga Khayal rakhna Take care. Ingat ka.

Iniya Piranthanaal Janam din keshu Happy Maligayang
Vaazhthukkal bhakamanaen Birthday! Kaarawan!

*(Note: Indians rarely say goodbye and are more likely 15
to use some equivalent of “See you later”
like “Appurom Parkalaam” in Tamil or Phir Milenge in Hindi)

Hi-5, up high!

SDTM Spec Review COVID Snapshot -Created the Query which
This team was involved in the pulls the name of the views where
review of all the SDTM specs snapshot label was applied. Query
drafted for COVID study by manual was further optimized to decrease
mapping team. They were able to the run time and produce the quick
complete the specs review in very results. Run time for initial query
stringent time and finalized the was approx. 3 hours however we
same to meet the study were able to reduce the run time to
expectation. 2 minutes.
To: Divya , Venkatesh , Alagesh, To: Joseph
Ekta, Ashok, Syed
SDTM aCRF Bookmarking for COVID
Knowledge Sharing -C4591001 -With our automated
Conducted Several trainings for aCRF Bookmarking tool we have
manual mapping team to build an been able to generate SDTM aCRF
understanding of CD-INF specs and Bookmarking for C4591001 trial in
SRDM naming convention. Trainings fraction of minutes. This usually took
were conducted to bring the manual mapping team 1 day to
alignment between manual generate manually. Through Python
mapping team and SDTM standard we have been able to reduce the
teams. work in excel generation which
stores page numbers as metadata
To: Alagesh, Syam for aCRF Bookmarking Tool.
To: Suvathi, Smriti, Jagadeesh
Safety Code base Volume 3 release
All the safety specs and code base Release of TLFs for Review
was finalized/reviewed and released
to production. A total of 14 Domains C1111006
were delivered where team was
involved in reviewing the new TLFs of combine PASCO and STADA
utilities like pre-processor/special
character and formulated the data has been released for review of
execution structure along with GUI
integration testing. the study team. This is after
To: Divya, Venkatesh, Syed, Ashok,
Ekta, Joseph encountering a lot of data issues

from STADA data.

To: Bettina , Jimmy 13

Hi-5, up high!

Vaccines CWG Monthly Delivery Revatio Adhoc analysis
We have delivered our First Vaccines DMC team had asked for few
Deliverable in the beginning of the reports for further review and
month. We have delivered monthly there was a need to generate
reports for the studies C1091002, within a day for decision making.
C1091007, B7471011 and Team had take up this challenge
B7471013. The team had done a and delivered in one day.
great job.
To: Trina, Ninan , Mouli
To: Raghavendra, Sharath, Dhivya,
Vipeen, Karthik, Rajesh, John BDR delivery of Geodon
A1281198-
Hemophilia Studies BDR (B1821059 BDR delivery of Geodon A1281198
and B1831059) with tight timelines and complex
Two studies BDR with Preponed analysis
timeline delivered together. It was a
great collaboration with most of our To: Greeshma, Kiruthika,
SPArtans. Teams did a fantastic job Devender, Akshara, Junibel, Ninan
of delivering the quality outputs on
time. Delivery of Key Unblinded TLFs for
To: Jeffy, Likhita, Baskaran , PRM A6531002 PCH Study-
Periasamy, Kiruthika, Sharath,
Vipeen, Vamshi, Divya Vani ,Rajesh, Key Unblinded TLFs have been
Ram Kishan, Raghavendra, released for Preliminary Results
Devender , Greeshma, Satya Memo for A6531002 Study

Cohort validation macro-
Satya came up with a validation
macro to ensure Cohort algorithm
and its implementation across
datasets is as expected. This ensured
the quality of cohort variable , when
ever there is an extraction and could
able to pick up unusual values.

To: Satya To: Josephine, Junibel 14

World Nature Conservation Day: A good
reason to celebrate the ‘Beauty of Nature’

Every year, on 28 July, the world In order to celebrate the beauty
celebrates the World Nature of Nature, the Chronicles team
Conservation Day. It aims at organized a photography
increasing awareness of the natural competition within the SPA
resources that the Earth is bestowed colleagues
with and the need to ensure their
long term protection. Taking care of Unbelievable!
the environment should be
everyone’s responsibility and Many nature lovers from the
privilege at the same time; the team joined the contest, sharing
privilege to conserve the planet for over 60 of their wonderful clicks!
the generations to come. There are It was a tough cookie for all the
three essential verbs one should judges to select best among
keep in mind: them!!

Reduce, Recycle, Reuse A special thanks to our
judges Ninan Luke (SPA) and
How can you help save our Praful Prabhakaran(DMM)for
planet? their keen review and sharing
top best pictures. The
✓ Reduce water consumption parameters used were
✓ Quit smoking composition, lighting, depth
✓ Say “No” To Plastic Bags! of concept and color.
✓ Reduce the use of electricity Congratulations to our
✓ Use rechargeable batteries winners, Vipeen, Bettina ,
✓ Plant a tree & Grow Trina and flip on to see all the
pictures
vegetables
✓ Drink Sustainable coffee 16
✓ Say NO to illegal WILDLIFE

PRODUCTS
✓ Eat sustainable SEAFOOD

Vipeen

Solapur,
Maharashtra,

India

Bettina

Dingalan,
Aurora,
Philippines

Trina

Dudhwa National
Park,

Uttar Pradesh, India

SPA_Nature_Pictures

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JULY MASH-UP

Happy
Birthday!

Work
Anniversaries

at SPA

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The SPA Jar of Positivity contains one positive word, put in by all the members of the SPA
India and Manila team . Each word starts with the starting letter of our names. What word
would you add to the jar? Pick one up and carry it for the rest of your day!
-Artwork by Priya.

Editorial Board

Jeffy Sarto – [email protected]
Trina Sen – [email protected]

Likhita Kolli – [email protected]
Bettina Asanias – [email protected]

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you wish to contribute as content writers, designers or developers of
the future editions of the "SPArtan Chronicles". We look forward to

your support!

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