Real World Evidence in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Unique Features

• A first of its kind professional master’s program that taps directly into the world’s largest, open-science community covering over 2,300 individual collaborators, more than 300 organizations in 34 countries, and a data network consisting of 3.1 billion unique patients.
• A flexible format that meets your needs and lifestyle with full-time and part-time options available on campus in Portland, online, or hybrid.
• An experience-driven education to help hone your skills in real-world situations, including a capstone project.
• An award-winning faculty with extensive real-world evidence experience which they integrate into your courses.

Program Objectives

Through this program, students will acquire the ability to:

• Describe the value and process of the ethical use of observational health data to answer clinical questions.
• Illustrate how different forms of observational health data are collected, organized, and standardized to generate accurate, reproducible, and well-calibrated evidence.
• Use state-of-the-art statistical software and methods to combine and analyze large-scale federated health data from diverse sources (e.g., EHRs) while preserving privacy.
• Construct and take part in a team to conceptualize, analyze, and communicate the results of a study using observational health data to answer a clinical question.
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of an observational health analysis.

Career Outlook

• Gain highly sought-after skills to confidently begin your career at pharmaceutical companies, regulatory authorities, health systems, technology companies, and consulting groups specializing in life sciences and healthcare.

• There is a strong hiring market for these skills, with 85,000 real-world evidence job postings from December 2020 to November 2021 in the U.S. alone. (Emsi Knowledge Base, 2021)

• Top employers hiring professionals with real-world, evidence-related skills include Pfizer, Merck, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Bristol Myers Squibb (Emsi Knowledge Base, 2021).

• Top real-world, evidence-related job titles include regulatory professionals, medical and research scientists, medical professionals, data scientists, and analytics.

• Our global network connects you to professionals transforming patient care using transparent research methods and standardized open-source data.