Medical Informaticians

Medical Informaticians
Would you like to contribute to the safer use of medicines globally? We are looking for two Medical Informaticians to join our multidisciplinary research team in advancing the science of pharmacovigilance. The main focus of these positions is to contribute medical informatics expertise and perspectives to scientific method development and evaluation.

What you will do

- Provide clinical, medical, and medical informatics expertise, internally and externally
- Perform analysis of relevance, importance and needs, for the development of new methods for pharmacovigilance analysis
- Support the development and deployment of experimental methods for pharmacovigilance and medical decision support from a usability perspective, using for example prototyping
- Develop methods for data-driven discovery in support of signal detection and exploration
- Develop computational methods to support and enhance human decision-making throughout pharmacovigilance
- Evaluate methods from several perspectives, ranging from technical validation to impact analysis
- Provide expertise in medical information management, including structuring information and coding
- Work closely with data scientists and other pharmacovigilance scientists in all phases of research projects, at times contributing as a programmer if appropriate
- Support implementation and follow up of pharmacovigilance methods in settings outside the Research department at UMC
- Communicate scientific results in presentations, posters and scientific articles

You have a

- MD (one position), or degree in another medical discipline (one position)
- MSc degree in Medical/Health/Biomedical Informatics
- PhD is a plus

You have three years of clinical experience and experience in

- Evaluating methods or health information systems
- Programming
- Medical terminologies
- Health information systems, electronic health records, registries

It’s a plus if you also have experience with

- Programming in Python
- Analysis of the relevance and needs for new methods/approaches to process medical data
- Data driven methods development
- Human Computer Interaction and prototyping
- Medical decision support

Personal profile
We are looking for a candidate with the following profile:

- Creative, able to propose innovative solutions with a focus on applied value
- Analytical: an aptitude for analytical review and constructive feedback
- Solution-oriented, and a willingness to prioritize. Able to get things done.
- An ability to accept and embrace change.
- Being comfortable with uncertainty, addressing it with curiosity, having a willingness to learn, experiment and evaluate
- Able to thrive in a complex environment, with multiple stakeholders, interactions, changing conditions and requirements such as working in multiple projects at the same time.
- Drive, being ambitious, determined, and wanting to succeed
- Leadership. Help propel and guide our scientific development
- Communication, teamwork and effective collaboration with the clinical assessment team as well as data science team are key success factors


Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) is a centre for international service and scientific research in the field of pharmacovigilance. We are the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, and manage the technical and operational aspects of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring since 1978.

As an independent, non-profit foundation, we support the World Health Organization, regulatory authorities, and other stakeholders who share our vision of advancing medicines safety. Through research and development of new scientific methods, we explore the benefits and harms of medicines for patients, and offer products and services used by health authorities and the pharmaceutical industry worldwide.