Organizations That Deal With Pharmacovigilance And Drug Safety – Part 1

By Bart Cobert

In an earlier post, we talked about the Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Sweden. This is the major organization (outside of governments) that deals almost purely with drug safety. Also in an earlier session we talked about Motherisk at the University of Toronto, Canada.

There are many other organizations that deal with pharmacovigilance (PV) drug safety (DS) in one way or another. Some do training and run courses; others hold periodic meetings; some are aimed at rookies and others at more experienced PV personnel.  Many of the organizations (e.g. DIA and ISPE) have job/career information and sites on their websites where employers can post jobs and candidates can post resumés.

Today we will review several organizations that deal in one way or another with drug safety which personnel doing drug safety may find useful.  This list is not meant to be exhaustive and there are most likely some organizations I have not included. Readers should feel free to respond with information on other offerings. Most of the courses and meetings noted below are quite pricey ($1000 or more). In a later post we’ll review educational offerings in DS/PV.