A Drug Safety Associate is responsible for assessing the safety of pharmaceuticals drugs once they're on the market. Using standardised guidelines, they determine whether the medication causes any adverse reactions in patients and report their findings back to the pharmacovigilance department.
Depending on the level of exposure achieved, career progression in Drug Safety can lean towards line management, or a more technical direction which includes signal detection, risk management and epidemiology.

Keyskills: communication skills technical skills legal regulatory knowledge analytical problem-solving skills ethical approach information management skills references education scientific knowledge foreign language skills attention to detail