External Affairs

Chair: Jennifer Visser-Rogers

PSI External Affairs Committee (EA) role is to maintain and develop links between PSI and other appropriate external organisations. Its activities are:

  • Represent PSI on the Council of EFSPI.
  • Develop and maintain oversight of links with external organisations. Actively engage with external organisations as appropriate.
  • Encourage PSI members to volunteer to support not-for-profit organisations who need statistical advice, and identify organisations that may need such support. EA maintains a database of volunteers and links volunteers and organisations.
  • Manage the ‘Need Statistical/Data Science Advice’ page of the PSI web site.
  • Facilitate interactions between PSI and the media. This includes interaction with the Science Media Centre.

 

Upcoming Events

Joint PSI/EFSPI Visualisation SIG 'Wonderful Wednesday' Webinars

Our monthly webinar explores examples of innovative data visualisations relevant to our day to day work. Each month a new dataset is provided from a clinical trial or other relevant example, and participants are invited to submit a graphic that communicates interesting and relevant characteristics of the data.

PSI Book Club - The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence

Develop your non-technical skills by reading The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins and joining the Sept-Dec 2025 book club. You will be invited to join facilitated discussions of the concepts and ideas and apply skills from the book in-between sessions.

PSI Training Course: Pediatric Extrapolation

This course is aimed at biostatisticians with no or some pediatric drug development experience who are interested to further their understanding. We will give you an introduction to the pediatric drug development landscape. This will include identifying the key regulations and processes governing pediatric development, a discussion on the needs and challenges when conducting pediatric research and a focus on the ways to overcome these challenges from a statistical perspective.

PSI Career Young Virtual Event (Q3 2025)

This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.

EFSPI/PSI Causal Inference SIG Webinar: Instrumental Variable Methods

The webinar is targeted at statisticians working in the pharmaceutical industry, and the objective is to 1) provide a basic understanding of IV methodology including how it relates to causal inference, and 2) present two inspirational pharma-relevant applications.

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