Description
Investigate and quantify the utilization, safety, and effectiveness of medications in populations, analyzing determinants and outcomes in real-world settings. Develop evidence, methods, and programs for postmarketing surveillance, risk minimization, and informed regulatory and clinical decisions.
- • Lead pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety programs, including surveillance, signal detection, and benefit-risk assessment.
- • Analyze medication use and adverse events to identify risk factors, effectiveness, and causal relationships.
- • Design and direct observational studies and pragmatic trials of drug safety and effectiveness.
- • Develop and evaluate risk minimization strategies and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) with regulators and health systems.
- • Select data sources (claims, EHR, registries) and define exposures, outcomes, and covariates.
- • Apply and advance methods for confounding control, causal inference, and signal detection in real-world data.
- • Advise clinicians, pharmacists, policymakers, and industry on medication safety and utilization.
- • Supervise epidemiologists, analysts, and data management staff.
- • Assess public health issues related to polypharmacy, antimicrobial stewardship, and controlled substances.
- • Teach pharmacoepidemiology, study design, and regulatory science to trainees and colleagues.
- • Build, curate, and quality-check analytic datasets with attention to privacy and reproducibility.
- • Monitor and report safety signals and utilization trends to regulatory and public health agencies.
- • Communicate comparative safety and effectiveness findings to clinicians, payers, and the public.
- • Prepare study protocols, statistical analysis plans, and technical reports.
- • Publish findings in peer-reviewed journals and present at scientific meetings.
- • Write grant applications and funding proposals for pharmacoepidemiologic research.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
