Would you like to contribute to the safer use of medicines and vaccines for everyone everywhere? We are looking for a Terminology Specialist to join our expanding Drug Dictionary Management team within the Portfolio and Product Management department at UMC.
As part of the Drug Dictionary Management Team, you will help ensure the highest quality standards to comply with regulations, meet customer expectations, and deliver efficient and orderly information management. This dedicated and energetic team consists of health professionals with advanced pharmacy education who work closely with colleagues in the Product Management section to support the development and maintenance of WHODrug. The team is also involved in developing processes and systems regarding the standardisation of the identification of medicinal products. Partaking in outreach activities, such as webinars and WHODrug-related presentations, are also among the collective duties of the team.
Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) is an independent, non-profit foundation and international centre for medicine safety and scientific research UMC is a World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre and oversees the technical and scientific operations of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring covering more than 95% of the world’s population. The organisation is custodian of VigiBase, which is the largest global database of suspected adverse events of medicines and vaccines. In addition to working with drug safety signal monitoring, UMC has developed WHODrug Global, which is the world’s most widely used drug dictionary, and is advancing pharmacovigilance through science and innovation and education and communication. UMC is governed by a board consisting of members from the Swedish government and WHO and has approximately 150 employees based in Uppsala (Sweden).
What you will do
Further on in your employment you will get the opportunity to take on other responsibilities such as participate in the maintenance of additional WHODrug related products, another aspect of the team´s responsibilities.
