Patient Safety, Evidence Synthesis Lead

Locations: Mississauga, Luton, UK, or Barcelona
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Do you have expertise in, and passion for systematic reviews and critical appraisals of evidence? Would you like to apply your expertise to evaluate the safety of medicines in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you! At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.
The Patient Safety, Evidence Synthesis Lead is a scientifically driven vital position, accountable for driving scientific and operational aspects of systematic literature reviews for post marketing commitments and contextualisation projects, including rapid reviews and critical appraisals to support various pharmacovigilance and regulatory activities.
The incumbent will work closely with cross-functional internal partners across Global Patient Safety, Global Regulatory, Global/Local Medical, and R&D to develop strategic plans for delivering systematic reviews. They will also be the go-to person to provide scientific guidance, expertise and training in systematic reviews, including to senior leaders, and collaborate with senior colleagues and peers to ensure optimal management of all evidence synthesis projects.
The Patient Safety, Evidence Synthesis Lead must be able to

• Deliver and assess different types of high-quality evidence reviews that focus on patient safety, including designing search strategies, screening studies for eligibility, data extraction, data synthesis, risk of bias or quality assessments and writing reports.
• Design and develop protocols for different types of high-quality evidence reviews, including rapid reviews, scoping reviews, systematic reviews of trials or observational studies and meta-analyses.
• Conduct ad hoc literature reviews on patient safety related topics and provide critical appraisal assessments of published safety studies involving AZ products.

Essential Requirements

• Ph.D. or equivalent in epidemiology, public health or related health science field with substantial experience in evidence synthesis. Alternatively, an MSc or MPH with substantial experience in systematic reviews and evidence synthesis.
• Experience in synthesising and summarising published literature and medical information on drug and patient safety in a clinical or post-marketing environment, including the reporting of adverse events.
• Hands-on experience in undertaking and delivering high-quality systematic reviews and ad hoc literature reviews.
• Ability to critically appraisal study designs and published studies, including experience applying critical appraisal tools and reporting guidelines to the literature.

Desirable Requirements

• A broad knowledge of patient safety, drug safety and epidemiology, including an understanding of medical terminology.
• A passion for literature reviews, conducting and evaluating with a desire to improve the quality of evidence synthesis in drug safety.
• Ability to work effectively with internal & external experts, collaborative groups and contract research organizations (CROs).

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