Pharmacoepidemiologist / Statistician
Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), London
Starting salary: £37,175 per annum
Closing date: 31 October 2011
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), is the government agency which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe.
Pharmacoepidemiologists are required to carry out statistical/epidemiological research to inform regulatory decision-making on drug safety issues for marketed medicines, to provide dedicated statistical support for pharmacovigilance/drug safety assessment activities and to audit the impact of regulatory action.
Key responsibilities include:
- Undertaking population-based observational studies using electronic healthcare databases to evaluate potential associations between drugs and adverse events
- Providing epidemiological/statistical advice to staff within the pharmacovigilance group
- Conducting research to investigate drug prescribing patterns to help understand the impact of regulatory action
Applicants for this post will have a degree or postgraduate qualification in statistics or epidemiology (or related scientific discipline with a major statistical component), with experience of epidemiological work relating to the design and analysis of observational studies and proven experience in the analysis of large datasets using statistical software.
Further details on this role and how to apply are available on the MHRA website at www.mhra.gov.uk/aboutus/workingforus/currentjobvacancies
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