Uppsala Forum: Putting pharmacovigilance on trial

The next Uppsala Monitoring Centre research conference will be making the case for evidence of impact.

UMC has been closely monitoring the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak and after careful consideration has decided to postpone the scheduled Uppsala Forum until next year in view of the current situation and the efforts of public health authorities in affected countries to control and prevent the disease from spreading further. The dates for the next forum are now 11-12 May 2021.

Past research conferences

2018: UMC 40^th Anniversary Conference

In 2018, Uppsala Forum was replaced by UMC’s 40^th Anniversary conference, where key actors from the past and present of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring joined pharmacovigilance colleagues to reflect on the progress pharmacovigilance has made since the programme’s inception in 1968.

Rapid Fire talks Uppsala Reports coverage

Uppsala Forum 2016: Pharmacovigilance’s role in rapid access to safer drugs

The need to develop and rapidly deploy new treatments tests the limits of traditional pharmacovigilance and demands new thinking and practice. How can we ensure the safety of patients using new drugs when rapid access is of paramount importance?

Rapid Fire talks 2016 Conference Report

Uppsala Forum 2014: Risk: What risk? Whose risk?

Topics covered included: Patient groups at risk – genotypes and phenotypes; Structure analysis of medicinal products; Detection and confirmation of signals; Individualised benefit-risk assessment; Effective communication to health professionals and patients in clinical settings.

Uppsala Forum 2012: Causality assessment in an evolving pharmacovigilance landscape

Causality assessment plays a critical part in the search for better science and safer use of medicines. Although the principles of causality assessment are straightforward, the application of those principles to an individual case is a philosophical as well as a scientific challenge.

Uppsala Forum Conference Report 2012