We design and deliver bespoke training courses in pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance for organisations seeking to build internal capacity. To date, our tailored programmes - delivered both online and in person - have been run for teams in the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies, government departments, and academic institutions across the UK and internationally.
Whether your goal is foundational training or more advanced methods for decision-making with real-world evidence, we can adapt content and delivery to meet your team’s needs.
To explore a bespoke training opportunity for your organisation, please contact us at shortcourses@lshtm.ac.uk.
This page highlights our bespoke training options for organisations. If you are an individual interested in joining our core programme, please visit the Professional Certificate in Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacovigilance or explore our short courses:
Our bespoke courses are designed to be flexible in both format and delivery. We work with each organisation to co-develop a training programme that fits your goals, schedule, and preferred mode of learning. Courses can be delivered:
- Online, with a blend of live interactive workshops and self-paced learning
- In person, either at your organisation or on-site at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT)
- Or as a hybrid model, combining elements of both
We offer flexible scheduling across full days, half days, or extended multi-week formats. Programmes can range from short intensives to comprehensive multi-session courses, depending on your objectives and your team’s availability.
Our bespoke courses allow your organisation to select modules aligned with your team’s specific learning objectives. Below are some potential thematic areas and example sessions you can choose from. We can mix and match sessions from different areas to create the perfect programme for your team.
- Introductory topics in pharmacoepidemiology
- Example sessions:
- Fundamentals of study design: cohort, case–control, clinical trials
- Descriptive statistics, prevalence, incidence, and measures of effect
- Core epidemiological principles: bias, confounding, and effect modification
- Assessing causality and critically appraising pharmacoepidemiological studies
- Example sessions:
- Introductory topics in pharmacovigilance
- Example sessions:
- Principles of pharmacovigilance: spontaneous reporting systems and international guidelines
- Signal detection, prioritisation, and statistical methods in pharmacovigilance
- Risk management planning, including EU frameworks and specific applications like vaccine pharmacovigilance
- Case studies in health technology appraisal and decision-making
- Example sessions:
- Harnessing real-world data for pharmacoepidemiology
- Example sessions:
- The global landscape of real-world data: key sources and applications
- Practical use of electronic health record databases, including codelists, drug exposures, and outcomes
- Dealing with missing data
- Reporting standards (e.g., STROBE, RECORD, RECORD-PE)
- Open science and reproducibility, Trusted Research Environments (TREs), and distributed networks
- Example sessions:
- Intermediate & advanced methods
- Example sessions:
- Approaches to confounding control: multivariable adjustment, propensity scores, negative control analysis, and case-only designs
- Modern pharmacoepidemiological approaches and considerations: causal inference, target trial emulation, data-enabled trials, and quantitative bias analysis
- Synthesising and critically appraising evidence: systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and structured evaluations
- Example sessions:
This list represents a small sample of the expertise available within our teaching team. Our bespoke courses are developed by the Electronic Health Records Research Group at LSHTM, often in collaboration with other faculty across the School, depending on the focus of the training. We are happy to work with you to develop a tailored programme that draws on a broader range of topics, case studies, and methodological approaches to meet your organisation’s specific goals, interests, and level of experience.
Course fees are determined based on the number of participants, delivery method, location, and level of content customisation. We are happy to work with different budgets and organisational contexts – contact us at shortcourses@lshtm.ac.uk to explore what’s possible.
Workshop participants
On the teaching and instructors
“High-quality teaching, engaging instructors, relevant material in a burgeoning field.â€
“Very knowledgeable and helpful course leaders who could explain very complex processes in layman’s terms for beginners.â€
“The instructors are clearly knowledgeable. Really great to apply what we have learned from previous courses and workshops.â€
“The course facilitators and workshop leaders were excellent teachers, both in terms of subject knowledge but also communication style.â€
On the interactivity and workshops
“Excellent interactive workshops with good group sizes and excellent input and support from expert faculty.â€
“I really enjoyed the interactive workshops and designing our own study. The practical examples were particularly helpful to understand the different study types and their pros and cons.â€
“The workshops give you the opportunity to ask questions and consolidate learning.â€
“Workshops and exercises were interactive and helped work through the concepts learnt in the lectures.â€
On the course content and structure
“The course is great - it builds up on knowledge slowly. I really liked the first workshop where we had an opportunity to apply what we learnt in a practical way. Comparing two papers in the second workshop was also an eye-opener as it shows that we shouldn’t assume outcomes are black and white just based on study design.â€
“Comprehensive overview of study designs and methods.â€
“Structured lectures that follow in sequence. Once you know lecture 1, you’ll understand lecture 2 and so on.â€
“The course was informative, with excellent resources and great tutors.â€
On the flexibility and delivery format
“It was useful being able to watch the lectures in my own time, being able to pause, take notes, rewind, etc.â€
“I liked the self-paced recorded lectures. They were delivered in a very clear manner and were very informative.â€
“Video resources were done in manageable divisions to fit in around other work.â€
On overall experience and satisfaction
“I LOVED this course! High yield, excellent facilitation. 100% would recommend.â€
“The course was interactive with lots of informal discussion.â€
“Thank you to all the lecturers and organisers. It was a valuable course and really well run.â€