Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, MSc

The Masters Program in Drug Safety is one year program designed to provide health care professionals, investigators and students interested in working in the pharmaceutical industry or in public policy/drug regulation with skills, knowledge and attitudes to empower them for a career in drug and patient safety, drug research or health policy.  Drug safety is an increasingly important topic as new therapies are developed and enter clinical use.  Patients, health care providers, industry and government all share common concerns as to how to ensure that drugs are safe when used as directed.  Most training programs in health care and in pharmacology do not teach approaches to drug safety in detail, leaving a gap that needs to be filled.  This program will fill that gap.  Students will undertake a series of courses in core areas of drug safety and pharmacology, undertake a major research project and have a practicum during which they will work in a drug safety focused environment.  Graduates of this program will be well equipped to face and address the challenges of drug safety in the era of molecular, biologic and precision medicine.