Systematic Reviewer - Remote, United Kingdom - Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Remote, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale.

Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.

With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services.

Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.

Location/Division-Specific Information**
This role offers 100% remote working flexibility.
Our Evidence Synthesis team offers broad clinical knowledge and expertise in finding and assessing complex information.

This means our clients and Evidera colleagues can rely on us to discover, synthesize, and contextualize the data that really matter and thereby provide them with insights they could not have obtained by themselves.

Here are a few things we help our clients & colleagues do:

Understand new indications in the context of specific product strategy
Advise planning for primary research, such as choice of patientreported outcome instruments and comparators
Estimate clinical comparisons of products versus competitors
Capitalize on existing research while assessing evidence gaps
Provide information for value development planning
Determine which databases have proved useful in target indications
Derive model inputs
Create burdenofillness assessments for submission to payers
Publish burden assessments for dissemination
Populate dossiers
Populate regulatory documents such as Risk Management Plans.

Discover Impactful Work:

You understand why systematic literature reviews are crucial.

Perhaps you're skilled in network meta-analysis (NMA) and/or epidemiology which will add to the team's strengths in these or other specialist areas.

Whatever your specific background and interests, you'll be able to help ensure the team's thinking and approach to systematic literature reviews take account of innovative research and best scientific and consulting practice.

As a systematic reviewer on individual literature review projects and subsequent analyses, you'll independently direct key aspects of systematic literature review (SLR) research projects with mentorship from senior staff, as well as run multiple projects with tasks varying to a degree by project.

A day in the Life:

Define and refine research questions as they pertain to the SLR objectives

Design of literature searches/algorithms to be implemented in scientific literature databases (i.e., PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, etc.) and grey literature sources (conference proceedings, regulatory agencies).

Develop inclusion/exclusion criteria within the PICOS framework to be implemented during screening process

Oversee the screening of abstracts and fulltext articles against defined inclusion/exclusion criteria to assess their suitability for inclusion in the review
Review the PRISMA diagram depicting the study attrition
Validate data abstraction and extraction
Finalize the analyzable dataset
Draft tables and figures for analysis results
Synthesize the evidence base by through drafting and editing sections of project deliverables (e.g. reports, protocols, statistical analysis plans) and dissemination actives, abstract and manuscript preparation
Develop a project plan and monitor project progress, including timeline and budget
Draft project proposals, including scoping the body of evidence and preparing project budgets)
Participate in nonliteraturebased research and consulting activities within other departments (e.g., modeling and simulation, realworld evidence).

Keys to Success

Education & Experience:

PhD or MSc in health sciences, economics, biology, natural sciences or a related field with a minimum of 35 years relevant systematic literature review (SLR) experience; or Bachelors with 8 or more years relevant experience.
Proven experience in systematic literature review methods in health economics and/or health services research; experience in network metaanalysis would be an advantage, but not crucial
Experience in a consulting environment is desirable, but not crucial
Proven experience in systematic literature review methods in health economics and/or health services research

Personal Skills & Competencies:

Participate in staff recruitment and training efforts
Serve as a line manager (depending on skills/experience)
Experience delegating tasks to junior staff and review their work as appropriate
Excellent communication skills, including presentations.
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