Job Description

What the role is:We are looking for highly motivated individuals with a strong desire to protect public health and safety to join us as Senior/ Data Analyst, Vigilance & Compliance Branch (VCB).What you will be working on:

• Develop statistical analysis plans and perform analyses for clinical database studies related to drug safety.
• Conduct data quality assessments and ensure accuracy and fit-for-purpose data usage.
• Participate in data analytic projects to support post-marketing surveillance activities of health products.
• Contribute towards the development of an active safety monitoring programme for medicines including creating study protocols and writing SOPs
• Contribute, as an main author / co-author for journal publications, conference abstracts and posters.
• Supervise student interns as required
• Perform other related duties as assigned

What we are looking for:

• Strong background and experience in pharmacy, epidemiology with additional training in related scientific disciplines, e.g. biostatistics, health informatics, or equivalent technical fields with 2-3 years of experience.
• Prior experience in hospital pharmacy practice, medication safety, pharmacovigilance or experience in causal inference methods will be an advantage.
• Experience in analysing electronic health records and assessing data quality and fit-for-purpose.
• Proficient in at least one statistical programming language (e.g. R, Stata or Python) and SQL.
• Peer-reviewed journal publications in topics related to drug safety
• Good interpersonal, communication, presentation and writing skills

About Health Sciences Authority:The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) applies medical, pharmaceutical and scientific expertise through its three professional groups, Health Products Regulation, Blood Services and Applied Sciences, to protect and advance national health and safety. HSA is a multidisciplinary authority. It serves as the national regulator for health products, ensuring they are wisely regulated to meet standards of safety, quality and efficacy. As the national blood service, it is responsible for providing a safe and adequate blood supply. It also applies specialised scientific, forensic, investigative and analytical capabilities in serving the administration of justice. For more details, visit http://www.hsa.gov.sg/. For more updates on public health and safety matters, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/HSAsg and LinkedIn at https://sg.linkedin.com/company/health-sciences-authority.

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