Pharmacovigilance Researcher

Verksamhetsbeskrivning
Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) is a foundation with a global mission of safer use of medicines. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, UMC works on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO) to collect and analyse international patient data with the aim of identifying and explaining problems related to medicines and their use. UMC is a world leader in scientific development in medicines safety monitoring, and provides capacity building in WHO member countries. Our products and services are used by health authorities and companies in the life science sector in more than 100 countries. UMC currently has approximately 100 employees.
Ready to change the world?
Would you like to help us make the world a safer place? Join an award-winning, multidisciplinary team committed to enabling safer use of medicines. We are seeking to recruit a pharmacovigilance researcher to further strengthen our capacity for signal detection, drug safety information retrieval and scientific investigations.
Uppsala Monitoring Centre is responsible for the technical and scientific operations of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring, an international initiative which focuses on enhancing patient care and safety in relation to the use of medicines, and supports public health programmes by providing reliable, balanced information for the effective assessment of the risk-benefit profile of medicinal drugs. We work with a range of exciting data sources, from VigiBase®, the WHO Programme's repository of nine million individual case reports from around the world, to electronic patient record systems, and social media. We lead and participate in international collaborative projects together with universities, health authorities, and industry. By joining the UMC, you will become part of a truly international organization with a global vision: safer patients.



Arbetsuppgifter
Main responsibilities:
Participate in routine signal detection and analysis, including causality assessment of case series.
Support external customers, collaborators and national centres in specifying queries of VigiBase data.
Retrieve, compile and communicate VigiBase data on request from external customers and collaborators.
Participate in scientific investigations of drug-related problems. Provide pharmacological and/or medical expertise in scientific projects.
Participate in authoring scientific publications.
Present research results internally and externally.

Main interfaces/collaborations:
Other members of the Research section.
External collaborators, including academic groups and international collaborative projects.
The UMC review panel.
WHO member countries and external customers

Utbildning/Erfarenhet
Personal profile
As a member of the Research team you will need to be:
Creative and propose innovative solutions with focus on applied value.
Analytical - have an aptitude for analytical review and constructive feedback.
A team player who helps others to perform to the best of their ability.
Solution-oriented, and see challenges as opportunities to excel.
Adaptable - have the ability to cope with change in internal or external demands.