RWE April Forum -DRAFT-

Jeffrey Brown, TriNetX

Jeffrey Brown, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at TriNetX and part-time lecturer part-time at Harvard Medical School (HMS), is an internationally recognised expert in using real-world data to support the evidentiary needs of regulatory agencies and medical product sponsors. He is also an expert in assessing data quality of real-world data resources. Dr Brown focuses on the value of collaborative research with an emphasis on federated networks. He has expertise in assessing the fitness-for-use of real-world data and matching questions to methods to data to generate robust evidence. He has nearly 20 years of experience facilitating large-scale, multi-institutional observational research through using distributed health data networks to support a learning health system and using electronic health data to support decision-making.

In his previous role as Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr Brown served as the Lead Data Scientist for the FDA Sentinel Operations Center and as a member of the Sentinel Operations Center Executive Committee. He has also been Principal Investigator of the analytic coordinating centre for the Innovation in Medical Evidence Development and Surveillance (IMEDS) programme and the Biologics and Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium (BBCIC). While at Harvard he also served as PI of several industry-sponsored multi-site pharmacoepidemiologic studies to support FDA and EMA regulatory requirements. Dr Brown holds a master’s degree in economics from Tufts University and a PhD in Social Policy from Brandeis University.