Time

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

8:00 – 8:45 am

Registration

8:45 – 9: 00 am

Welcome

9:00 – 9:45 am

Introduction to Research Methods

Introduction to pharmacovigilance: World view and evolution in Africa

Project management (including Documentation procedure and Budgeting)

9:45 – 10:40 am

Study design and evaluation

Principles and methods of Pharmacovigilance (incl Benefit-Risk Assessment, PMS)

Project management (including Documentation procedure and Budgeting)

10:40 – 11:00 am

Tea Break

11:00 -11:45 am

Ethics/Patient participation in research

Guidelines for good Pharmacovigilance practices

Publication writing (incl. use of AI and other writing tools)

11:45 – 12:15 am

Ethics/Patient participation in research

Role of QPPV or focal persons

Round Table Discussion: Research in Nigeria-Lessons learnt from the past and looking unto the future (Shared experiences)

12: 15 am – 1:00 pm

Studies in special and vulnerable populations

AE reporting (incl Signal Detection, Management, ADR Reporting and Regulation) and PV regulation

Round Table Discussion: Research in Nigeria-Lessons learnt from the past and looking unto the future (Shared experiences)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch break

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

Planning and preparing for research

Vaccines/Biologics: ADR after immunisation

2:45 – 3:30 pm

Basic analysis of research data

Risk communication/Risk Management Plan

3:30 – 4:15 pm

Basic analysis of research data

Medication Error

4:15 pm – 5:00 pm

Grants application

Pharmacovigilance of Herbal medicines