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Overview
What you will study
There is unprecedented interest in estimating the safety and effectiveness of medicines. The widespread and near-real-time availability of real-world data (RWD) offers opportunities to quickly generate real-world evidence (RWE) to address these needs. Observational studies are vulnerable to many potential biases and translating RWD into high-quality RWE requires careful consideration of the scientific process including identification of fit-for-purpose data and selection of the most appropriate design, measurement, and analysis methods to mitigate potential biases.
During this Real-World Evidence in Pharmacoepidemiology course offered by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , students will:
- Develop their knowledge of concepts, study designs, and methods in pharmacoepidemiology
- Apply statistical techniques to generate real-world evidence using electronic health record data
- Understand biases and other sources of error that can occur in studies using real-world data, and identify and apply strategies to avoid them
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Overview of study designs, including self-controlled designs, for pharmacoepidemiology
- The practicalities of planning a study
- Measurements in pharmacoepidemiology
- Sources of RWD around the world used for pharmacoepidemiology and the importance of identification of fit-for-purpose data
- Data-enabled trials
- Sources of error in pharmacoepidemiological studies
- Thinking through causal relationships and regression model building
- Propensity scores, including high-dimensional propensity scores
- Quantitative bias analysis (QBA)
- Dealing with missing data
- Open science, reproducibility, and trusted research environments (TREs)
- Tools for distributed network pharmacoepidemiological studies
- Critical appraisal of published studies
- Overview of new methods and insights within pharmacoepidemiological research
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
More details
- Please contact the university for more information about the application deadline.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Pharmacology Epidemiology View 6 other Short Courses in Epidemiology in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
Individuals concerned with the safe and effective use of medicines should apply, especially those working in:
- The pharmaceutical industry who are involved in drug development, licensing, or surveillance
- Regulatory bodies who are involved in licensing & surveillance
- Academics interested in evaluating drug safety and effectiveness
- The health service who are involved in drug policy and decision making
Tuition Fee
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International
1550 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1550 GBP for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
1550 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1550 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
- £1,550 full fee
- £975 students
- £550 LMIC (eligible countries) or charity status
Funding
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