Skills

Communication Research Risk Evaluation Databases Oral and Written Communication Marketing Recruitment

Job Specifications

Epidemiologist

12m, remote/hybrid

Key responsibilities:

Improve disease understanding relevant to drug development: incidence, prevalence, risk factors, natural history course, treatment patterns, comorbidities, co-medications, outcome measures, phenotypes, biomarkers, unmet needs, and their variations across domains such as demographics and geographies.
Support clinical trial design, in particular identification of the target population, protocol development, patient recruitment and patient medical history data ascertainment.
Contribute to medication safety evaluation: provide background event rates, synthesize existing evidence including through meta-analyses, identify high-risk populations.
Support post-marketing surveillance activities: risk evaluation mitigation strategies, epidemiology studies for signal detection and inference, post-authorization studies of treatment benefit and risk.
Critically appraise existing epidemiology evidence and create new evidence through delivery of specific research plans/protocols and analysis of healthcare databases available within.

Experience required:

5 years or more in Epidemiology in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience in an academic or government setting.
Significant experience applying epidemiologic methods to study a variety of questions in support of medicine development (safety, effectiveness, natural history of disease)
Demonstrable experience leading pharmaco-epidemiologic research programs in a drug development environment and use of real world data (EMR or claims)
Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence to peers and at scientific meetings.
PhD required in epidemiology or a relevant discipline (i.e. health services research, health outcomes research, public health, statistics or pharmaceutical sciences)

About the Company

SRG are industry leaders in Life Sciences, Clinical and Engineering Recruitment and the largest Life Science recruitment agency in the UK. With over 30 years’ experience of helping leading STEM organisations find, hire and retain the very best STEM talent, we understand what job seekers and employers are looking to achieve, and what they need to get there. At SRG, our industry experts draw on their own experience, technical and scientific backgrounds and expertise, and work in partnership with businesses to ensure hiring su... Know more