External Affairs

Chair: Ray Harris

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

PSI VisSIG Wonderful Wednesdays

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

PSI are starting a book club! We will be reading/discussing non-technical books relevant to our roles. Participants will be split into smaller groups to network with each other and practice exercises.

PSI Leading for Impact Workshop

Whatever your current challenge(s) at work, this workshop will explore what's holding you back, and how barriers can be removed in order to progress and achieve.

PSI Training Course: Repeated Measured and Mixed Models

A PSI Training Course covering the statistical methods for repeated measures and other clustered data. Course will cover: Conditional models for continuous hierarchical data, Conditional models for continuous longitudinal data, Marginal models (GEE) for continuous longitudinal data & Discrete data.

PSI Careers - Lunch & Learn: Imposter Syndrome Session

Learn from others in the PSI Community who also associate with Imposter Syndrome. They will discuss the topic, give their own personal views and experiences and provide tips to beat it.

Joint PSI, EFSPI & ASA BIOP Webinar: Complex Innovative Designs

Complex Innovative Designs: overview and case studies from FDA pilot program and considerations on master protocols.

PSI Training Course: R for Clinical Trial Statisticians

R is quickly gaining popularity within the pharmaceutical industry due to it being a very powerful object-orientated language, and is able to produce analyses and high quality graphics. This will be a hands-on interactive course and will utilise the RStudio Cloud development environment.

PSI Careers - MED MathS

In just 1 hour, learn about the field of medical statistics and how it plays a crucial role in developing ground-breaking new medicines, vaccines and healthcare products.

PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event

Our annual PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event, will be held online on Wednesday 2nd March 2022. The event will include a live online panel discussion and a virtual exhibition session.

Latest Jobs

Global Director Biostatistics (m/f/x)

For our global team in Europe we are seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position of Global Director Biostatistics (m/f/x).

Principal Biostatistician

Joining us as Principal Biostatistician you will be responsible for providing statistical support of global clinical development programs in neuroscience.

Senior Manager Biostatistics (m/f/x)

The Senior Manager Biostatistics will be responsible for leading biostatistics strategy and activities for a compound and/or for individual clinical studies.

Unique PhD Graduate Rotation Program - Virtual Analytics Network

Novartis is establishing a virtual Analytics Network in the UK and we are currently recruiting PhD graduates to join this exciting new group!