What is Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance is the pharmacological science relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects, particularly long term and short term side effects of medicines. In general, Pharmacovigilance is the science of collecting, monitoring, researching, assessing and evaluating information from healthcare providers and patients on the adverse effects of medications, biological products, herbalism and traditional medicines with a view to: identifying new information about hazards associated with medicines preventing harm to patients. Pharmacovigilance is particularly concerned with adverse drug reactions, or ADRs, which are officially described as: “A response to a drug which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally use for the prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy of disease, or for the modification of physiological function.
Pharmacovigilance Job Profile:
- Drug Safety Associate
- Case Processing Expert
- Pharmacovigilance Associate
- Pharmacovigilance Scientist