Special Guest Seminar

Presentation Title: "AI-driven pharmacoepidemiology and drug utilisation research for health decision-making: applications using real-world data"

Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior, BS Pharmacy, MSc Pharmaceutical Sciences, PhD in Epidemiology, is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and Visiting Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), United Arab Emirates. He coordinates the Centre for Health Technology Assessment and Policy Decision-Making (CCATES/UFMG) and the FarGenix Pharmacogenomics Research Lab. His work focuses on real-world evidence, pharmacoepidemiology, health technology assessment, pharmacogenomics, and artificial intelligence applied to health decision-making. He has collaborated with the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Medicines Pricing Authority (ANVISA/CMED), WHO/PAHO, and the World Bank on pharmaceutical policy, health technology assessment, and the use of large-scale administrative health databases to support regulatory and policy decisions.

The presentation explores how drug utilisation research and pharmacoepidemiology are evolving within an AI-augmented framework for health decision-making. It would include practical applications combining artificial intelligence and real-world data, showing how we use health databases for pattern detection, estimation of treatment effects, outcome prediction, comparative effectiveness research, drug monitoring and development, clinical guidelines, and HTA decision-making.