Director, Epidemiology – Respiratory

GSK

Director in Epidemiology for Respiratory at GSK driving strategies across drug development. Leading epidemiological studies and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to improve health outcomes.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeWaltham • California, Maryland, Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $192,225 - $320,375 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a technical expert in epidemiology and the therapeutic area, develop and maintain an epidemiology strategy aligned to the drug development strategy.
Improve disease understanding relevant to drug development: incidence, prevalence, risk factors, natural history course, treatment patterns, co-morbidities, co-medications, outcome measures, phenotypes, biomarkers, unmet needs, and their variations across domains such as demographics and geographies.
Support and be accountable to advise scientifically on Real World Evidence strategies.
Contribute to medication safety evaluation: provide background event rates, synthesize existing evidence including through meta-analyses, identify high-risk populations.
Propose and lead post-marketing activities: risk evaluation mitigation strategies, epidemiology studies for signal detection and inference, post-authorization studies of treatment benefit and risk.
Critically appraise existing epidemiology evidence and create new evidence through delivery of specific research plans/protocols and analysis of healthcare databases available within GSK.
Develop strong partnerships with internal stakeholders in a multi-disciplinary framework (clinical, safety, regulatory, health outcomes, asset leadership) to meet product needs.
Plan resource allocation to accomplish multiple research projects and attain project and study timelines.
Identify innovative, timely and cost effective methods to conduct epidemiologic studies.
Negotiate internal funding of projects.
Develop and negotiate research plans with external collaborators in academia or contract research organizations and work effectively with vendors for outsourced studies.
Communicate study findings to relevant internal and external audiences effectively.
Input into regulatory submission documents and represent the function to regulatory agencies as required.
Present the company position on epidemiology issues and epidemiology findings to regulatory agencies and other external authorities.
Extend a track record of external publications in peer reviewed journals in support of asset teams.
Strengthen the position of the Epidemiology group as a recognized leader in the application of epidemiology to drug development.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Doctoral degree (PhD., ScD or DrPH) in epidemiology (preferred) or a relevant discipline
Clinical degree (e.g., in medicine, pharmacy, nursing) and a masters degree in Epidemiology with at least five years experience leading pharmaco-epidemiologic research in a drug development environment
Demonstrable experience leading pharmaco-epidemiologic or translational epidemiology research programmes in a drug development environment
Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence to peers and at scientific meetings.

Benefits

Comp & perks

health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
retirement benefits
paid holidays
vacation
paid caregiver/parental and medical leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

Epidemiology Strategy DevelopmentMeta-AnalysisHealthcare Database AnalysisRisk Evaluation MitigationResearch Plan DevelopmentSignal DetectionPost-Authorization StudiesClinical ResearchData SynthesisEpidemiology Evidence Appraisal

Soft Skills

Excellent Oral CommunicationExcellent Written CommunicationNegotiation SkillsCollaborationStakeholder Engagement

Certifications

Doctoral Degree in EpidemiologyClinical Degree (Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing)Masters Degree in Epidemiology