Digital Health Grand Rounds | Federated Learning for Drug Safety Research presentation by Professor Robert Platt

Join Professor Robert Platt, Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health  at McGill University for his presentation on 'Federated Learning for Drug Safety Research'. He holds the Albert Boehringer I Chair in Pharmacoepidemiology and is the Principal Investigator of CNODES.

Regulators require rapid and representative analyses of drug utilisation and safety.  In Canada, data are housed in provincial repositories and must be analysed separately.  The Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) was created in 2011 to provide such studies for Health Canada and other stakeholders. CNODES uses a variety of federated learning strategies including both common protocol-based analyses and common data model-based analyses to conduct studies of drug utilisation, safety, and effectiveness in Canada.  In this talk Professor Platt will describe CNODES and approaches to research, highlight a few research outputs, and discuss ongoing and future challenges for federated analyses.

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