The NorPEN Education Group offers a seminar series where speakers present new studies, novel tools and methods, and other topics of interest in pharmacoepidemiology.
Click on the titles below for available recordings.
For information on upcoming NorPEN seminars, please sign-up for the NorPEN EduGroup email list here.
A list of previous seminars can be found here.
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Bordeaux PharmacoEpi (BPE) platform present their work on federated studies and intra-database validation
NorPEN seminar series Apr 30th 2026. Presenters: Nicolas Thurin, Head of Scientific Research and Laure Carcaillon-Bentata, Head of Scientific Research at The Bordeaux PharmacoEpi (BPE) platform, France. Part 1 – Federated Studies in Europe: Approaches and Common Data Models Part 2 – Validation Without Access to Patient Medical Charts: What Alternatives Do Claims Data Provide?
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Electronic Health Records (BIFAP) for EU Regulatory Network-Oriented Pharmacoepidemiology: Current Experiences and Future Opportunities
NorPEN seminar series Feb 12th 2026. Presenter: Miguel-Ángel Maciá-Martínez, Head of Pharmacoepidemiology at the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS) and the Coordinator of BIFAP (Pharmacoepidemiologic Research in Public Health Systems).
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PRE2DUP-R: estimating drug use periods from drug purchase data
NorPEN seminar series May 14th 2025. Presenter: Pia Vattulainen, Doctoral student at the University of Eastern Finland and researcher at Niuvanniemi Hospital, Kuopio
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Tree-based scan statistics to screen for drug safety signals: Application in pregnant and pediatric populations
NorPEN seminar series March 25th 2025. Presenter: Krista Huybrechts, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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A Gentle Introduction to Causal Forests for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
NorPEN seminar series October 28, 2024 Presenter: Anders Hviid, Head of the Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institutand Professor of pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University ofCopenhagen
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Handling polypharmacy in psychiatric pharmacoepidemiology
NorPEN seminar series March 12th 2024. Presenter: Heidi Taipale, Senior Researcher at Niuvanniemi Hospital, Finland and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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Conditional Average Treatment Effects using Meta-learners and explainable risk equations
NorPEN seminar series January 24th 2024. Presenter: Maurizio Sessa, Associate Professor at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen
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Benchmarking observational studies against randomized trials
NorPEN seminar series September 12th 2023. Presenter: Anthony Matthews, Assistant Professor in Epidemiology and Causal Inference at the CAUSALab at IMM, Karolinska Institutet
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Using clone-censor-weight to study deprescribing: an application to RAS inhibitors in advanced CKD patients
NorPEN seminar series February 15th 2023. Presenter: Edouard L Fu, postdoctoral research fellow at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School