OUR FREE LIVE REAL WORLD MASTERCLASS SERIES WILL BE BACK AFTER THE SUMMER
‘How to ensure success and avoid pitfalls in Real World studies by Understanding Healthcare in Europe and Asia’
Dates: Restarting in September 2023 | Time: 5pm CET | 4pm UK | 11am EST | 8am PST
OXON will be resuming the series of masterclasses on real world evidence after the summer
This Masterclass series follows the successful Masterclasses in 2021on real-world studies and RCTs by OXON and the eminent statistician, Stuart Pocock, Professor of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (devised: ‘Pocock Stopping Rule’, ‘Win Ratio’. ‘Individualising benefit-risk’); extensive experience with EMA/FDA and data monitoring committees (including adaptive platform Covid-19 DISCOVERY trial); >500 publications (100+ NEJM/Lancets) mainly of trials and epidemiology.
The series provides practical knowledge and advice from national academic experts to apply to field, secondary data and hybrid observational studies for safety, HEOR/market access and clinical development. It is aimed at professionals in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries, anywhere in the world, involved in the production of real-world evidence and conduct of observational studies in Europe and Asia.
UPCOMING MASTERCLASSES CALENDAR
| Title | Date | Start Time | Duration | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEBINAR SERIES ON RWE: Session 3 - Designing & Delivering Successful RWE in Vaccines Part of the OXON Webinar Series on RWE 2026–2027, this live session on Real-World Evidence in Vaccines will provide practical insights into how real-world data can support vaccine research, evidence generation and decision-making. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of the opportunities and challenges of conducting RWE studies in vaccines, including key considerations related to vaccine effectiveness, safety, uptake, impact and study design in routine clinical practice. | 30 Sep, 2026 | 17:00 CEST | 1 hour | Register |
| The Stuart Pocock Masterclass Series: Session 1 – Pragmatic Real-World Evidence Trials
Join Prof. Stuart Pocock and Dr Nawab Qizilbash for the first session in the free live online masterclass series, “Applying Clinical Trial Methodologies to RWE”. This session will explore how pragmatic randomised trials can be designed and conducted to generate robust, decision-relevant evidence in routine clinical practice. It will consider how established clinical trial principles can be adapted to real-world settings while maintaining scientific rigour, and how pragmatic approaches can help bridge the gap between controlled research and everyday healthcare. Register below to attend and gain a clearer understanding of the role these trials can play in producing reliable evidence that is relevant to patients, clinicians and healthcare decision-makers. | 4 Nov, 2026 | 17:00 CET | 1 hour | Register |
| WEBINAR SERIES ON RWE: Session 4 - Designing & Delivering Successful RWE Across the UK Part of the OXON Webinar Series on RWE 2026–2027, this live session with Prof. Thomas MacDonald will provide practical, country-specific insights into the UK healthcare system and the major real-world data sources available to support the design and delivery of high-quality RWE studies. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of the opportunities and challenges of conducting RWE in the UK, including key considerations related to healthcare structure, clinical practice, and database selection. | 18 Nov, 2026 | 17:00 CET | 1 hour | Register |
| The Stuart Pocock Masterclass Series: Session 2 – Safety: From Trials to Real-World Evidence
Join Prof. Stuart Pocock and Dr Nawab Qizilbash for the second session of the free live online masterclass series, “Applying Clinical Trial Methodologies to RWE”. This session will explore how safety evidence evolves from controlled clinical trials to real-world settings, where larger and more diverse patient populations, longer follow-up and routine clinical practice can provide important insights that may not emerge before approval. It will consider how evidence from clinical trials and real-world data can be interpreted together to build a more complete understanding of treatment safety and support reliable clinical, regulatory and healthcare decision-making. Register below to attend this live session and gain practical insights into the role of real-world evidence in the ongoing evaluation of treatment safety. | 20 Jan, 2027 | 17:00 CET | 1 hour | Register |
| The Stuart Pocock Masterclass Series: Session 3 - Benefits: from Efficacy to Effectiveness
Join Prof. Stuart Pocock and Dr Nawab Qizilbash for the third session of the free live online masterclass series, “Applying Clinical Trial Methodologies to RWE”. This session will explore how evidence on treatment benefits evolves from efficacy demonstrated under controlled clinical trial conditions to effectiveness in routine clinical practice. It will consider how differences in patient populations, treatment use and healthcare settings can influence real-world outcomes, and how clinical trial and real-world evidence can be interpreted together to provide a more complete understanding of treatment benefits. Register below to attend this live session and gain practical insights into the transition from efficacy to effectiveness and its importance for clinical and healthcare decision-making. | 17 Mar, 2027 | 17:00 CET | 1 hour | Register |
| The Stuart Pocock Masterclass Series: Session 4 - Applying Trial Methodologies to RWE
Join Prof. Stuart Pocock and Ruth Owen for the fourth and final session of the free live online masterclass series, “Applying Clinical Trial Methodologies to RWE”. This session will explore how established clinical trial methodologies can be applied to real-world evidence studies to strengthen their design, analysis and interpretation. It will consider how trial-based principles can help address the challenges inherent in observational research, improve scientific rigour and generate more robust and credible evidence from routinely collected data. Register below to attend this live session and gain practical insights into how clinical trial methodologies can support the generation of reliable real-world evidence for clinical and healthcare decision-making. | 18 May, 2027 | 17:00 CEST | 1 hour | Register |
About OXON’s Free Live Masterclass Series on RW Studies
These are masterclass sessions to understand the healthcare for RW studies, led by leading professors of pharmacoepidemiology in Europe and Asia, centred on the practical theme of “How to ensure success of your RWE studies and avoid pitfalls”
The series are delivered by leading native pharmacoepidemiologists together with OXON, and are centred on understanding healthcare and data sources to fulfil RW field and secondary data studies in their various countries.
The remaining sessions will review specific topics, such as:
- How to ensure success of your RWE studies and avoid pitfalls in South Korea
- How to ensure success of your RWE studies and avoid pitfalls in Taiwan
- How to ensure success of your RWE studies and avoid pitfalls in Spain
- External Control Groups for Regulatory and HTA submissions
- Multi-country RW Data Collection Studies
- Multi-Country RW Secondary Data Studies