Projeto PRR

Sumário

The prospective employee is expected to work as an Assistant Professor in the field of Digital Health. The employee is expected to work in research and teaching activities at the Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences (MEDCIDS) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. In particular, the employee is expected to work on pharmacovigilance activities coordination, post-authorization safety studies (PASS), electronic health records at the service of Digital Health studies such as cohort studies, evidence synthesis studies (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), active monitoring studies, and generation of evidence based on real-world data. The employee is expected to have knowledge and experience in doing research and teaching in these fields. In addition, the employee is expected to have a pharmaceutical sciences background and knowledge and experience in Digital Health.MEDCIDS has a relevant research and teaching track record in the Digital Health field. This is indicated by (i) the high number of pharmacoepidemiology studies published by its members, (ii) the participation of some of its members in scientific projects funded by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Digital Health, (iii) the involvement of some of its members in the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP), (iv) and by the participation in technology transfer and services provision activities (involving public, private, national or international entities – e.g., participation in pharmacovigilance reports of the Portuguese drug agency). This research activity is done in close connection with the Associate Laboratory RISE (Health Research Network). In fact, Thematic Line 4 of RISE is fully dedicated to health policy and digital transformation, having as its scope “development and assessment of methods and technologies to improve biomedical sciences and healthcare”.MEDCIDS has also displayed a vibrant teaching activity in the Digital Health field, with contents on post-authorization safety studies, pharmacovigilance in the context of clinical trials, evidence synthesis studies, electronic health records at the service of pharmacovigilance, active drugs surveillance and risk minimization measures being one of the cornerstones of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical and Health Services Research and of the Master’s Degree in Evidence and Decision in Health. In addition, these contents are taught in the Health Data Sciences Doctoral Programme (all these programmes are hosted at MEDCIDS). Topics on Digital Health will also be of key importance to the BSc course in Digital Health in Biomedical Innovation, in particular to its branches of Clinical Research and Innovation Management in Health and Health Information Systems and Telehealth. Of note, several of the partners of this BSc course correspond to public or private entities with whom MEDCIDS has collaborated in technology transfer or service provision activities. Given this background and the need to further develop research and teaching activities in this field, hiring an Assistant Professor in the Digital Health area is necessary.