Epidemiologist
12m, remote/hybrid
Key responsibilities:
* Improve disease understanding relevant to drug development: incidence, prevalence, risk factors, natural history course, treatment patterns, comorbidities, co-medications, outcome measures, phenotypes, biomarkers, unmet needs, and their variations across domains such as demographics and geographies.
* Support clinical trial design, in particular identification of the target population, protocol development, patient recruitment and patient medical history data ascertainment.
* Contribute to medication safety evaluation: provide background event rates, synthesize existing evidence including through meta-analyses, identify high-risk populations.
* Support post-marketing surveillance activities: risk evaluation mitigation strategies, epidemiology studies for signal detection and inference, post-authorization studies of treatment benefit and risk.
* Critically appraise existing epidemiology evidence and create new evidence through delivery of specific research plans/protocols and analysis of healthcare databases available within.
Experience required:
* 5 years or more in Epidemiology in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience in an academic or government setting.
* Significant experience applying epidemiologic methods to study a variety of questions in support of medicine development (safety, effectiveness, natural history of disease)
* Demonstrable experience leading pharmaco-epidemiologic research programs in a drug development environment and use of real world data (EMR or claims)
* Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence to peers and at scientific meetings.
* PhD required in epidemiology or a relevant discipline (i.e. health services research, health outcomes research, public health, statistics or pharmaceutical sciences)