About Introduction to Pharmacoepidemiology
The goal of the course is to introduce pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety and research application for post-marketing drug safety surveillance. The course will describe how to develop a research protocol and conduct a research, describe various health care data sources used for research, and discuss how pharmacoepidemiology contribute to pharmacy practice, such as, drug utilization review, assessment of drug therapy, and adverse drug reaction monitoring. A series of case studies from thalidomide to cisapride to cerivastatin will be also discussed in class. Students can have a better understanding of Pharmacoepidemiologic research, drug safety regulatory, pregnancy registry, and risk management.