Knowledge

Here you learn about the businesses and environment you’re working in. Knowing this, will help you to make better decisions and understand the bigger picture.

Why and how to understand patient preferences

Interview with Brett Hauber Ultimately, we work to improve patients lives but traditionally the voice of the patient was not important. However, over the last decades many stakeholders shift to include the patient more in the decision-making process and patients voice their needs and preferences more. Still capturing and evaluating patient preferences does not belong …

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Does getting a PhD help you long term? Pro vs Con

What aspects to consider? Are you early in your career and you could still go for a PhD in statistics? Do you wonder, if this pays out short and long-term? Is it worth the money? What are the long-term benefits or are there actually short term benefits as well?

What is the best career option for me?

Interview with Oliver Schoenborn-Kellenberger Do you want to change your job?Are you just looking for you first job?Do you consider to work for your own company or as a free-lancer? Then this episode will help you!

Introduction to Benefit-Risk Assessment

Interview with Maria Costa and Shahrul Mt-Isa Benefit-risk assessments are made by various stakeholders including sponsors, regulators, payers, physicians, and patients throughout the life-cycle of a treatment. The understanding of data plays a vital role in weighting positive and negative effects of medications. In this episode, we give you an introduction to what benefit-risk (BR) …

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Data science or just statistics on non-medical data? A new horizon for statisticians

Interview with Stephen Ruberg There’s a long tradition of statisticians working on clinical studies as well as other related data, e.g. pre-clinical data and observational data. In the advent of big data and data sciences, there’s a considerable pull from the business side of pharma to employ statistical approaches as well. This leads to questions …

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