MSc Pharmacovigilance

The aim of this MSc is to provide a postgraduate education in pharmacovigilance, including relevant techniques, the basis of adverse drug reactions, regulations and guidelines (UK, EU and major worldwide regions), handling safety issues including labelling and risk management and systems and processes. Teaching consists of lectures and workshop activities in small groups and takes into account real world situations. There are opportunities for sharing experiences and networking which contributes to the development of your knowledge and understanding of pharmacovigilance issues.

Why choose this course?

• 92% overall satisfaction for Medicine and Dentistry in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES, 2024).
• The MSc/PgD/PgC in Pharmacovigilance is a programme developed by the School of Life and Medical Sciences Sciences in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Information and Pharmacovigilance Association (PIPA).
• The programme includes eight taught modules, and for the MSc award, a research project.
• It is taught mainly through teams of staff drawn from the professions appropriate to pharmacovigilance. This is a major feature of the programme, the majority of staff delivering the courses will be acknowledged experts.
• The aim is to provide a postgraduate education in pharmacovigilance, including relevant techniques, the basis of adverse drug reactions, regulations and guidelines, handling safety issues and the role of systems and processes.
• Students will attend a three-day block teaching, per module which is delivered online and in-person simultaneously, during a working day in United Kingdom time-zone.
• In addition to offering this course, The University of Hertfordshire is also part of the Eu2P European Programme in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology, an online pan European e-learning/e-teaching MSc course.