Roles You Can Explore:
•Health Economics Analyst.
•Market Access Associate.
•HEOR (Health Economics and Outcomes Research) Scientist.
•Policy Advisor for government or insurance agencies.
-Who Can Join?
•B.Pharm, M.Pharm, Pharm.D graduates (preferably with interest in data analysis)
•Additional courses in pharmacoeconomics, biostatistics, or public health are a plus
-Why It’s Exciting:
•Rising demand due to expensive new therapies
•Key role in policy-making and drug pricing
-Opportunities in pharma companies, consultancy firms, and health agencies.
Would you prefer working with data and policy over lab work?
Pharmacoeconomics will be beneficial for pharmacy candidates only when it is introduced into our curriculum. Just like agriculture students study agroeconomics.
Employers are less likely to hire a pharmacy candidate with no background knowledge of economics. Furthermore, if you want to pursue proper medical data analysis, you’ll need to get your hands on SQL and machine learning, which is quite different from what we’ve studied.
This is a very informative and an intersting post. We have seen some posts earlier asking options for specializations after B Pharm and this post would be really helpful for those ones. Pharmacoeconomics can be surely considered as a choice after B Pharm especially for the ones who are interested in working with data and policy more than lab work.
Pharmacoeconomics studies the cost and value of medicines to guide healthcare decisions. It’s a great option for pharmacy graduates interested in data, research, and health policy. Demand in this field is growing fast.
