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Catherine joined the European Medicines Agency in 2020 as a Pharmacoepidemiology Senior Specialist in the real-world evidence (RWE) workstream of the Data Analytics & Methods Task Force, where she focuses on all aspects of RWE generation and use in regulatory decision-making, bringing more than 20 years of experience in (pharmaco)epidemiology across academic, industry, and regulatory settings. Her work includes key roles in International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) guideline development (M14, E6(R3) Annex 2), the design of non-interventional real-world data (RWD) studies, and public health crisis preparedness and response as part of the Steering Group of the EU Vaccine Monitoring Platform. She co-chairs the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP), represents EMA in research projects under the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA), and serves as an expert on the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety. She previously held senior roles in the pharmaceutical industry, generating and evaluating RWE across the development and lifecycle of medicines, worked as an epidemiologist at the Centre for Public Health Research and the Malaghan Institute for Medical Research in Wellington, New Zealand, and as a scientist at the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France.

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