Our bespoke courses allow your organisation to select modules aligned with your team’s specific learning objectives. Below are some potential thematic areas and example sessions you can choose from. We can mix and match sessions from different areas to create the perfect programme for your team.

• Introductory topics in pharmacoepidemiology
  • Example sessions:
    • Fundamentals of study design: cohort, case-control, randomised trials
    • Descriptive statistics, prevalence, incidence, and measures of effect
    • Core epidemiological principles: bias, confounding, and effect modification
    • Assessing causality and critically appraising pharmacoepidemiological studies
• Introductory topics in pharmacovigilance
  • Example sessions:
    • Principles of pharmacovigilance: spontaneous reporting systems and international guidelines
    • Signal detection, prioritisation, and statistical methods in pharmacovigilance
    • Risk management planning, including regulatory frameworks and specific applications like vaccine pharmacovigilance
    • Case studies in health technology appraisal and decision-making
• Harnessing real-world data for pharmacoepidemiology
  • Example sessions:
    • The global landscape of real-world data: key sources and applications
    • Practical use of electronic health record databases, including creating codelists, drug exposures, and outcomes
    • Dealing with missing data
    • Reporting standards (e.g., STROBE, RECORD, RECORD-PE)
    • Open science and reproducibility, Trusted Research Environments (TREs), and distributed networks
• Intermediate & advanced methods
  • Example sessions:
    • Approaches to confounding control: multivariable adjustment, propensity scores, negative control analysis, and case-only designs
    • Modern pharmacoepidemiological approaches and considerations: causal inference, target trial emulation, data-enabled trials, and quantitative bias analysis
    • Synthesising and critically appraising evidence: systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and structured evaluations

This list represents a small sample of the expertise available within our teaching team. Our bespoke courses are developed by the Electronic Health Records Research Group at LSHTM, often in collaboration with other faculty across the School, depending on the focus of the training. We are happy to work with you to develop a tailored programme that draws on a broader range of topics, case studies, and methodological approaches to meet your organisation’s specific goals, interests, and level of experience.