Medical Assessor

**NEW ZEALAND PHARMACOVIGILANCE CENTRE**

**DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES**

The Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (CARM) operates New Zealand's voluntary adverse reactions reporting programme for medicines and vaccines as well as adverse events to natural health products and medicinal cannabis.

CARM's activities which are funded under contract to the Ministry of Health, operate alongside other research initiatives and programmes to make up the New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre (NZPhvC), supporting an integral part of New Zealand's pharmacovigilance activities.

CARM works closely with Medsafe, the Ministry of Health, the health sector and academia.

**The role/Te mahi**

This opportunity could suit a practicing clinician seeking career diversity.

Your contribution to these pharmacovigilance activities through individual report review or database analysis, will support identifying events, or patterns of events of concern that may inform regulatory action, prescribing advice or education.

**Your skills and experience/Kā pūkeka me kā wheako**

You will be a clinician with current, or very recent clinical practice experience registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand in General Practice or another relevant medical specialty.
- a passion for exploring drug safety issues and contributing to the safe use of medicines
- demonstrated knowledge of pharmacology and epidemiology or pharmacoepidemiology
- strong communication skills, both oral and written.
- the ability to author reports.

**Further details/Pūroko**

**Application/Tono**

Associate Professor Adam Pomerleau

**APPLICATION INFORMATION**

Equal opportunity in employment is University policy.

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