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

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