Publicerad: 2025-01-27
Statistician
Would you like to use your statistical expertise to enhance the safer use of medicines and vaccines? Do you excel in diverse, multicultural teams and find satisfaction in tackling problems that deliver tangible benefits? Are you interested in leveraging your analytical skills to aid in decision-making and tackle significant research questions? Then this position is the right fit for you!
Since 1978, Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) has been dedicated to developing, supporting, and expanding the field of pharmacovigilance science and practice.
As a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre, we support work around the world to examine the potential adverse effects of medicines and vaccines and contribute to safer, more informed care of patients.
We are a diverse, international group of pharmacists, physicians, data scientists, system developers, communicators, and many other professionals motivated by a deep belief that the work we do matters.
We are seeking a skilled statistician to join our Research team, reporting to our Head of Data Science. The position will include participation in and support of research projects, as well as a support role to our safety signal management team, which conducts in-depth investigations of potential causal associations between specific medicines and side effects. The ideal candidate will also develop code libraries to share externally with the global pharmacovigilance community. What you will do
- Work with a passionate team of data scientists, research pharmacists and clinicians, as well pharmacovigilance scientists.
- Acquire a deep understanding of our unique database of side effects to support others in their decision-making or research questions (e.g., how to appropriately account for biases and confounding factors, how to choose appropriate study backgrounds and study designs).
- Support the activities of our signal management team, helping them navigate potential analytical pitfalls, extracting data for deeper investigations of potential medicines safety issues, advising on appropriate study designs.
- Participate in diverse research projects involving in-house data as well as external data, such as electronic health records or social media.
- Develop code libraries (R or Python) to support analytical capabilities of the pharmacovigilance global community.
- Build capacity for statistical thinking.
- Design and evaluate novel methods to advance the science of pharmacovigilance with statistical modeling or machine learning.
- Communicate results to internal and external stakeholders, adapting to the diversity of their backgrounds, as well as disseminate research via scientific publications and participation in research conferences.
- Engage in international collaborations.
Who you are
- You have a MSc degree in statistics, mathematics, epidemiology, engineering, or another quantitative discipline. A PhD is desired but not required.
- You have hands-on experience in biostatistics, causal inference, epidemiology or statistics.
- You are proficient in Python and/or R.
- You have at least two years of relevant experience.
- It’s an advantage if you have experience of working with databases and SQL.
- It’s an advantage if you have good data visualisation skills.
- You have strong interpersonal skills and are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders with diverse backgrounds and nationalities.
- You are innovative, independent, driven, and can quickly devise relevant research questions as well as come up with data-driven ways to address those questions.
- You are generous and enjoy helping others to solve problems.
Located in the heart of Uppsala, three minutes away from the central station, we are currently around 180 employees and consultants and have generous employee-benefit policies. In addition, UMC allows hybrid working, with the opportunity to work remotely up to 2 days a week. For more information about our activities and products, visit www.who-umc.org.
Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) is a non-profit foundation established in 1978 through an agreement between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the government of Sweden as a WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring.
UMC is custodian of the WHO global database of adverse event reports for medicines and vaccines and strengthens global safety surveillance through science and innovation, signal analysis and pharmacovigilance tool development, standardisation with the WHODrug dictionary, and education and communication.
UMC’s working language is English. We normally apply a probationary period to new appointments.
If you have any questions regarding this position please contact the responsible manager. You will find the contact details at the end of this page.
UMC follows the collective agreements between the Swedish Agency for Government Employers and Saco-S and ST. Union representatives are Malin Zaar (Saco-S) and Jessica Avasol (ST), +46 (0)18-65 60 60.
Since 1978, Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) has been dedicated to developing, supporting, and expanding the field of pharmacovigilance science and practice.
As a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre, we support work around the world to examine the potential adverse effects of medicines and vaccines and contribute to safer, more informed care of patients.
We are a diverse, international group of pharmacists, physicians, data scientists, system developers, communicators, and many other professionals motivated by a deep belief that the work we do matters.
We are seeking a skilled statistician to join our Research team, reporting to our Head of Data Science. The position will include participation in and support of research projects, as well as a support role to our safety signal management team, which conducts in-depth investigations of potential causal associations between specific medicines and side effects. The ideal candidate will also develop code libraries to share externally with the global pharmacovigilance community. What you will do
- Work with a passionate team of data scientists, research pharmacists and clinicians, as well pharmacovigilance scientists.
- Acquire a deep understanding of our unique database of side effects to support others in their decision-making or research questions (e.g., how to appropriately account for biases and confounding factors, how to choose appropriate study backgrounds and study designs).
- Support the activities of our signal management team, helping them navigate potential analytical pitfalls, extracting data for deeper investigations of potential medicines safety issues, advising on appropriate study designs.
- Participate in diverse research projects involving in-house data as well as external data, such as electronic health records or social media.
- Develop code libraries (R or Python) to support analytical capabilities of the pharmacovigilance global community.
- Build capacity for statistical thinking.
- Design and evaluate novel methods to advance the science of pharmacovigilance with statistical modeling or machine learning.
- Communicate results to internal and external stakeholders, adapting to the diversity of their backgrounds, as well as disseminate research via scientific publications and participation in research conferences.
- Engage in international collaborations.
Who you are
- You have a MSc degree in statistics, mathematics, epidemiology, engineering, or another quantitative discipline. A PhD is desired but not required.
- You have hands-on experience in biostatistics, causal inference, epidemiology or statistics.
- You are proficient in Python and/or R.
- You have at least two years of relevant experience.
- It’s an advantage if you have experience of working with databases and SQL.
- It’s an advantage if you have good data visualisation skills.
- You have strong interpersonal skills and are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders with diverse backgrounds and nationalities.
- You are innovative, independent, driven, and can quickly devise relevant research questions as well as come up with data-driven ways to address those questions.
- You are generous and enjoy helping others to solve problems.
Located in the heart of Uppsala, three minutes away from the central station, we are currently around 180 employees and consultants and have generous employee-benefit policies. In addition, UMC allows hybrid working, with the opportunity to work remotely up to 2 days a week. For more information about our activities and products, visit www.who-umc.org.
Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) is a non-profit foundation established in 1978 through an agreement between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the government of Sweden as a WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring.
UMC is custodian of the WHO global database of adverse event reports for medicines and vaccines and strengthens global safety surveillance through science and innovation, signal analysis and pharmacovigilance tool development, standardisation with the WHODrug dictionary, and education and communication.
UMC’s working language is English. We normally apply a probationary period to new appointments.
If you have any questions regarding this position please contact the responsible manager. You will find the contact details at the end of this page.
UMC follows the collective agreements between the Swedish Agency for Government Employers and Saco-S and ST. Union representatives are Malin Zaar (Saco-S) and Jessica Avasol (ST), +46 (0)18-65 60 60.