Ruminations on the future of pharmacovigilance – new podcast out now

Perspective / 15 December 2022

After the pandemic: what were the lessons learnt for pharmacovigilance? Find out in the latest episode of the Drug Safety Matters podcast.


COVID-19 forced pharmacovigilance experts to revisit their processes to deal with unprecedented volumes of data and catch unexpected safety issues.

Elena Rocca of Oslo Metropolitan University joins Drug Safety Matters host Federica Santoro in the studio for a philosophical inquiry into the lessons to be learnt from the pandemic – and what it can teach us about the science of drug safety.

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