Roux Institute and Northeastern University’s upcoming CBER BEST Seminar with Dr. Heather Whitaker on vaccine safety evaluation using the self-controlled case series method.
The CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series is designed to share and discuss recent research of relevance to ongoing and future surveillance activities of CBER regulated products, namely biologics. The series focuses on safety and effectiveness of biologics including vaccines, blood components, blood-derived products, tissues and advanced therapies. The seminars will provide information on characteristics of biologics, required infrastructure, study designs, and analytic methods utilized for pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiologic studies of biologics. They will also cover information regarding potential data sources, informatics challenges and requirements, utilization of real-world data and evidence, and risk-benefit analysis for biologic products. The length of each session may vary, and the presenters will be invited from outside FDA.