Dr. Shirley Wang: Generating reliable insights from RWE for decision-making: highlights from REPEAT and DUPLICATE

Generating reliable insights from RWE for decision-making: highlights from REPEAT and DUPLICATE

Shirley Wang, PhD, ScM | Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Shirley Wang is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Epidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She is a pharmacoepidemiologist focused on developing innovative, non-traditional analytic methods to understand the safety and effectiveness of medication use in clinical care as well as facilitating appropriate use of complex methods for analyzing large observational healthcare data. To that end, she has developed enhancements to epidemiologic study designs and analytic methods as well as led efforts to guide appropriate use of complex methods for analyzing large observational healthcare data. Shirley has been involved with the US Food and Drug Administration’s Sentinel Initiative since 2011 and her methods work has been recognized with awards from two international research societies. She recently led a joint task force for the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) focused on improving the confidence of decision-makers in utilizing real world evidence through increasing transparency and reproducibility of healthcare database studies. She is also a writing group member for a National Academy of Medicine white paper on executing and operationalizing open science