Miriam Sturkenboom Editor

Tania Schink is the Head of the Drug Safety Unit at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS. She holds a Master’s (“Diplom”) in Statistics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, a PhD in Medical Sciences from the Charité (Humboldt University) in Berlin and a Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. She has more than 10 years of experience in pharmacoepidemiology, working on EU-funded multi-database studies, post authorization safety studies, and research projects regarding the use and safety of drugs in vulnerable populations such as the elderly and pregnant women.

Miriam Sturkenboom is a pharmacoepidemiologist from the University Medical Center Utrecht and Professor of Real World Evidence. She worked for 20 years at the department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC, as a Professor of Observational Data Analysis. She is a past president of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, she currently serves as an advising expert to the EMA, WHO, the Task Force for Global Health, the Brighton Collaboration and CEPI. Her research interests focus on knowledge discovery from data collected in routine healthcare to improve evidence on drug and vaccine safety, particularly in vulnerable populations (children, pregnant women and the elderly).  She has pioneered and implemented many collaborative distributed data network studies on European and global vaccine and drug safety. She has supervised more than 50 PhD students and published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of pharmacovigilance, pharmacoepidemiology and medical informatics.