Epidemiologist

Highly Competitive
  1. Contract
  2. Immunology
  3. United States
Durham, USA
Posting date: 07 Nov 2024
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Epidemiologist - Contract - Durham, NC (REMOTE)

Proclinical is working alongside a pharmaceuticals company who are seeking an Epidemiologist to join their team.

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will focus on improving disease understanding relevant to drug development, including incidence, prevalence, risk factors, natural history, treatment patterns, comorbidities, co-medications, outcome measures, phenotypes, biomarkers, unmet needs, and their variations across demographics and geographies. This position supports clinical trial design, medication safety evaluation, and post-marketing surveillance activities.

Skills & Requirements:

  • Experience in Epidemiology in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience in an academic or government setting.
  • Significant experience applying epidemiologic methods to study various questions in support of medicine development (safety, effectiveness, natural history of disease).
  • Demonstrable experience leading pharmaco-epidemiologic research programs in a drug development environment.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate scientific evidence to peers and at scientific meetings.
  • PhD in epidemiology or a relevant discipline (e.g., health services research, health outcomes research, public health, statistics, or pharmaceutical sciences).

The Epidemiologist's responsibilities will be:

  • Improve disease understanding relevant to drug development.
  • Support clinical trial design, including target population identification, protocol development, patient recruitment, and patient medical history data ascertainment.
  • Contribute to medication safety evaluation by providing background event rates, synthesizing existing evidence, and identifying high-risk populations.
  • Support post-marketing surveillance activities, including risk evaluation mitigation strategies, epidemiology studies for signal detection and inference, and post-authorization studies of treatment benefit and risk.
  • Critically appraise existing epidemiology evidence and create new evidence through specific research plans/protocols and analysis of healthcare databases.

If you are having difficulty in applying or if you have any questions, please contact Jackie Cerchio at j.cerchio@proclinical.com

Proclinical is a specialist employment agency and recruitment business, providing job opportunities within major pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies.

Proclinical Staffing is an equal opportunity employer.

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