Epidemiologist - Remote from the USA, contract

Alphanumeric is hiring an EPIDEMIOLOGIST to work with our client of 20 years committed to improving lives through medical and pharmaceutical advancements. The main field of study for this Epidemiologist is Oncology. • 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. Requirements: • 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 • Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence to peers and at scientific meetings. • PHD required in epidemiology Apply Job! Apply tot his job