Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics

The aim of the course is to present the students with the most important aspects of clinical and epidemiological evaluation of a drug. The main topics covered during the course will be the experimental, legislative, ethical, clinical, economical and pharmaco-epidemiological aspects of drug discovery and use.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to follow the entire development of a new active compound or pharmaceutical formulation, to understand how to design a clinical study needed for marketing the new drug, and how to evaluate the results of this study from the clinical, pharmacoeconomical and pharmacoepidemiological points of view.