Pharmacoepidemiologist, Safety Epidemiology

hace 5 días

Barcelona, España AstraZeneca A tiempo completo

**Location**:Mississauga, Luton, or Barcelona (hybrid 3 days/week in office)

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation - ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we’re taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.

Other responsibilities include vendor management, broad oversight of requests for epidemiological evidence to support epidemiological input into Risk Management Plans (RMPs), and fulfilling requests for epidemiological evidence needed by the AZ therapy area teams.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide strong, detailed guidance for optimizing pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance study design and execution
- Effective technical and strategic direction working cross functionally to ensure studies are delivered on time and to a high standard
- Develop design and drafting of protocols and a broad range of observational research including primary data collection and secondary use of data
- Conduct ad hoc literature reviews on Patient Safety related RWE and related matters and provides epidemiological input for CRF development.
- Contribute to characterizing the benefit-risk profile of AZ products and/or performing qualitative or quantitative benefit-risk analysis

**Requirements**:

- Ph.D or equivalent in pharmacoepidemiology, epidemiology or related health science field. Alternatively, a MSc or MPH with validated experience in pharmacoepidemiology.
- Strong background in epidemiological theory and methods, including appropriate use of medical statistics to solving problems in epidemiology
- Able to provide a robust literature review and perform critical appraisals to published studies
- Conceptual understanding of secondary data and/or primary data collection studies and they can be used to generate RWE.

**Desirable Requirements**:

- Prior work experience as an epidemiologist
- Extensive knowledge and experience in epidemiological methods and research in drug development or in a closely related academic research area
- Good therapeutic and disease area knowledge and knowledge of drug development and life cycle management

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