Overview

Pragmatic Approaches to Drug Safety Across the Premarketing and Postmarketing Continuum

This comprehensive three day training course is designed to cover contemporary principles, definitions, regulatory expectations, and pragmatic approaches to drug safety and pharmacovigilance in key regulatory jurisdictions, with focus on the US and EU. Topics will span the life cycle of traditional innovative medicinal products, from first-in-human through the postmarketing phase. However, faculty will be prepared to discuss drug safety topics of interest to participants. The course will be delivered in a series of modules at a basic to intermediate level; didactic presentations will be supplemented with real-world case studies and practical exercises. Active discussion with experienced faculty will be encouraged and the agenda will provide ample opportunities for Q&A.

Course Level: Beginner

What you will learn

Legal basis for safety obligations, including an historical perspective
Principles, basic definitions, and pragmatic approaches for compliance
Basics of Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs) and periodic reports (DSUR, IND AR, PADER, PSUR/PBRER) in the premarketing, peri-approval, and postmarketing continuum
Evaluation of seriousness, expectedness, and causality
An introduction to benefit-risk assessment
The safety framework in the premarketing phase, including Investigator, IRB/EC, and Sponsor roles under an IND
The mathematics of drug safety
Regulator approaches to marketing dossier review
Basics of risk management planning, EU Risk Management Plans, and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS)
Data collection, processing, and requirements in the postmarketing phase, including MedDRA coding, safety query development, and evolving EU requirements
Active safety surveillance in the postmarketing phase
Introduction to signal detection
Principles of pharmacoepidemiology
Audits and inspections

Who should attend?

Professionals working in pharmaceutical industry, academia, and drug regulatory authorities with basic to intermediate level experience in:

Clinical safety/pharmacovigilance
Case processing
Interventional clinical trial personnel (e.g., clinician, Principal Investigator, Medical Monitor, Clinical Research Associate, pharmacist, Electronic Data Capture tools)
Sponsor planning and oversight of clinical development programs, including regulatory approach, protocol design, and program implementation
Medical writing
Marketing, including Disease Management and Customer Engagement Programs
Quality systems
Regulatory strategy
Risk management planning and development of formal Risk Management Plans
Independent Data Safety Monitoring Board

This training course is also designed to provide the basics for those seeking a career change into a pharmacovigilance function.

Learning objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Identify the history, principles, and regulatory framework for clinical drug safety
Discuss the basic definitions of terms used in day-to-day pharmacovigilance work
Recognize basic international regulatory requirements for safety surveillance, as well as those requirements specific for the US and EU
Describe the criteria and elements of expedited and periodic reporting of drug safety information from first-in-human studies through the postmarketing phase
Demonstrate an awareness of risk management principles and pharmacoepidemiology

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