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Drug Safety Matters

Uppsala Monitoring Centre
Pharmacovigilance
Adverse Drug Reactions
Artificial Intelligence
Signal Detection
Patient Safety
Medication Errors
Drug-Induced Liver Injury
Disproportionality Analysis
Uppsala Monitoring Centre
Case Safety Reports
Veterinary Pharmacovigilance
Chatgpt
Global Smart Pharmacovigilance Strategy
Clinical Safety
Narrative Fields
Data Reporting
Antimicrobial Resistance
One Health
Machine Learning
Medical Devices

Drug Safety Matters brings you the best stories from the world of pharmacovigilance. Through in-depth interviews with our guests, we cover new research and trends, and explore the most pressing issues in medicines safety today. Produced by Uppsala Monitoring Centre, the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring.

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From signal assessor to researcher, QPPV and more, pharmacovigilance specialists play vital roles that differ widely based on their organisation and job title. But where should you begin if you're just starting your caree... more

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Pharmacovigilance has traditionally focused on the patient at the receiving end of a medicine. But what happens to medicines once they leave the body? In this episode, Valentina Giunchi and Joe Mitchell unpack the emergin... more

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For all its ease and speed, disproportionality analysis can be distorted by many biases, making it easy to misuse and misinterpret. Michele Fusaroli from Uppsala Monitoring Centre and Eugene van Puijenbroek from the Nethe... more

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Medical device pharmacovigilance is complicated. Alongside clinical safety, there are technology risks, from cybersecurity threats to outdated software, that can put patients at risk. 

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Myriam Salem
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Francesco Salvo
Representative from University of Bordeaux
University of Bordeaux
Episode: Ask us anything about… pharmacovigilance careers!
Valentina Giunchi
Biostatistician at Uppsala Monitoring Centre
Uppsala Monitoring Centre
Episode: #46 Protecting the health ecosystem – Valentina Giunchi & Joe Mitchell
Joe Mitchell
Affiliated researcher at Karolinska Institute and lead safety surveillance advisor
Karolinska Institute / ALK Abello
Episode: #46 Protecting the health ecosystem – Valentina Giunchi & Joe Mitchell
Eugene van Puijenbroek
Clinical pharmacologist and physician
Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Center Lareb
Episode: #45 How to perform better disproportionality analyses – Michele Fusaroli & Eugene van Puijenbroek
Omar Aimer
President of ISOP and co-lead of the ISOP Medical Device Safety Special Interest Group
ISOP
Episode: #43 Rethinking medical device safety, part 1 – Omar Aimer
Shanthi Pal
WHO Pharmacovigilance team lead
World Health Organization
Episode: #42 Unpacking the WHO Global Smart Pharmacovigilance Strategy – Shanthi Pal
Niklas Norén
Statistician, Data Scientist, and Head of Research at Uppsala Monitoring Centre
Uppsala Monitoring Centre
Episode: #40 How to use artificial intelligence in pharmacovigilance, part 1 – Niklas Norén
Angela Caro Rojas
President of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance
Episode: #39 Putting children first on Patient Safety Day – Angela Caro-Rojas

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Federica Santoro
Host of Drug Safety Matters

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5.0 out of 5 stars from 39 ratings
  • At last, something on PV!

    Great podcast with an eclectic mix of pharmacovigilance topics being discussed. I especially enjoyed the episodes concerning rare diseases and pharmacovigilance education. I’m looking forward to listening to more in the future!

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#46 Protecting the health ecosystem – Valentina Giunchi & Joe Mitchell
Q: From your experience, what are the main data and methodological challenges in studying the long-term environmental effects of medicines, especially compared with traditional pharmacovigilance?
Joe discusses the lack of uniform reporting, difficulties in identifying cause-effect relationships for environmental exposures, and the need for new data sources and models that incorporate geospatial, temporal, and wastewater dynamics to predict environmental concentrations and impacts.
#46 Protecting the health ecosystem – Valentina Giunchi & Joe Mitchell
Q: What is ecopharmacovigilance, and what are the similarities and differences between this and pharmacovigilance?
Valentina outlines that ecopharmacovigilance expands the focus beyond humans to animals and the environment, and emphasizes data sources, reporting pathways, and the challenge of linking exposures to outcomes when monitoring is diffuse and not person-based.
#46 Protecting the health ecosystem – Valentina Giunchi & Joe Mitchell
Q: And why should this be a concern for pharmacovigilance scientists? Why don't we start off with you, Joe?
Joe explains that medicines enter the environment in diffuse, low-concentration ways, making environmental exposure hard to link to adverse events; traditional patient-based signals are absent, so ecopharmacovigilance requires new methods and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
#44 Rethinking medical device safety, part 2 – Omar Aimer
Q: If you could advocate for one key change in device safety globally, what would it be?
Global harmonisation of post-market surveillance standards, data sharing, and performance monitoring across countries to close safety gaps and accelerate learning across regions.
#44 Rethinking medical device safety, part 2 – Omar Aimer
Q: How realistic is a global medical device database, and what other steps are needed?
A single global database is unlikely due to regulatory and standardisation differences; progress will come from linking regional databases and harmonising standards, with initiatives like FDA Good ID and EU DAMED serving as building blocks.

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Pharmacovigilance topics drive most episodes, from signal detection and disproportionality analyses to post-market safety of medical devices, AI in pharmacovigilance, and global safety strategies. Conversations tend to blend clinical, statistical, regulatory, and public-health perspectives with practical guidance for researchers, regulators, and industry. A standout is cross-sector collaboration and forward-looking tech debates (AI, blockchain, data harmonisation) that anchor discussions in real-world safety improvement and policy impact. This mix makes it useful for listeners who want rigorous, evidence-oriented conversations tempered with actionable takeaways and diverse expert viewpoints.

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5. Eugene van Puijenbroek
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