Drug substance senior engineer Vacatures in Antwerp

Introduction

The Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) strives to advance science and health for all, through innovative research, advanced education, capacity-building and capacity-sharing with partner institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Within ITM, the Department of Public Health aims to improve the understanding of interlinked determinants of population health, including system-level, sociocultural, ecological and biological; to develop, implement and evaluate interventions that support and strengthen health of individuals and communities; and to co-create knowledge and capacity to contextualise, prevent, detect and adapt to local and global health challenges and threats.

Within the Department, the Unit of Pharmaceutical Public Health focuses on analysing and strengthening the pharmaceutical systems. This through a triad of research, capacity building and education, and including policy support and advice on international pharmaceutical policies. With focus on the context of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and on vulnerable groups.

Our current activities include programs that support the strengthening of pharmacovigilance (PV) systems in LMICs, in the frame of the development of local pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing.

We are looking for a Research Fellow to be responsible for a two-year pharmacovigilance program in partnership with the Rwanda Food and Drug Authority (Rwanda FDA), as well as to support other unit’s activities in pharmacovigilance and related fields.

Your role :

• You will provide the Rwanda FDA with support for the strengthening of pharmacovigilance activities (e.g. active and passive reporting, ADRs, AEFIs, signal detection, strategies for risk communication to health workers and to the general public, etc.).
• You will provide the Rwanda FDA with support for the strengthening of operational research capacity in pharmacovigilance, i.e. for secondary use of routine data in research.
• You will guide and support master and PhD students in the field of pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology.
• You will contribute to the development of teaching modules on pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology, in addition to teaching at existing short courses such as the one on pharmaceutical policies in heatlh systems.
• You will explore new opportunities for research and capacity building in related fields, such as eco-pharmacovigilance, in collaboration with the ITM partners.
• You will (co)develop and contribute to grant applications for new collaborative projects in the field pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology.
• You will write scientific projects, reports and articles.
• You will report to prof. Raffaella Ravinetto, unit head.

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Offer :

The ITM is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive institute. We strive for excellence and relevance, integrity, sustainability and persistence and fairness. Your assignment contributes to the socially relevant mission of the ITM. We value human dignity and diversity, academic creativity and a critical spirit, solidarity and cooperation, and the well-being of employees, students, patients and clients. We offer you :