The world has changed, and it will not turn back to what is used to be before the pandemic. This comes on top of other trends, like the increased use of data across all aspects of data. The hunger for talent in the data science space has dramatically increased, and it is not only coming from the Apples, Googles, and Amazons.

Other trends are the increase in prices, the shifts in motivations of employees, and the debate about what really makes people join and stay at companies.

I first became aware of these sources for real-world evidence some years ago, and I tried to get an expert on this topic so often, but unfortunately no one would speak with me. Then finally someone agreed when they found out what country my research was being conducted in-the Scandinavian Union! You might be wondering why we need data from such a unique place as Scandinavia? Stay tuned because you'll find out soon enough… This region provides us statisticians everything we could hope: perfect measurements plus high-quality counts.

Is a board of directors essential for everyone?
Is it necessary for it to come from within your company?

This episode is all about career advise. Together with Heather, we talk about having your personal board of directors and how could this concept help you have a career advancement overtime.

We all need to present frequently and the more you progress with your career the more important the presentations become. Messing these presentations up - especially in front of those responsible for your next promotion - will lead to bad career outcomes.

What are biomarkers, and why is this essential?

Today’s episode is an extract from my interview with Jenn Fenwick, who's also a podcaster like me and we talk about my career and leadership.

This is a fun chat where we talk about navigating fear, opening ourselves up to vulnerability and making courageous decisions… oh and Beyonce gets a mention too!

What is extrapolation?
How can we use extrapolation in paedriatics?
What are the main challenges?

Paedriatic research always comes with challenges and understanding paedriatic submission is very important. There's always a lack of treatment in this area. In this episode, you'll understand what you can do to get evidence through extrapolation for the children population.

What are the benefits of including external data in the design and analysis of clinical studies?
How does the meta-analytic predictive model (MAP) work?

I know you've had this dilemma of either having had the difficulty in collecting data or having too much available and yet irrelevant data while trying to conduct a clinical trial. When is it appropriate to use historical data and when is it appropriate to enroll new patients to collect new data?

Today, Gaëlle and I talked about the main objective of using historical data in clinical trials.

Why are we raving about this conference?
Why is this the best conference I have been attending to?
What are the other activities beside the conference itself?

This is a special episode while Benjamin and I talk about the upcoming PSI conference and what you can expect from it. This will be a face to face conference in Gothenburg, Sweden!

The FDA is developing a series of four methodological patient-focused drug development (PFDD) guidance documents to address, in a stepwise manner, how stakeholders can collect and submit patient experience data and other relevant information from patients and caregivers for medical product development and regulatory decision making.

In today's episode, we discuss the process with the FDA publishing a timeline of planned public workshops, draft guidance documents and final guidance documents for 4 documents, originally planned to finish in end 2021 and its objective to explore the factors that need to be considered when developing COA-based endpoints.