Assessing data fitness: an interview with Noelle Cocoros

In this interview, Noelle Cocoros, Lead Epidemiologist for the US FDA’s Sentinel System, affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute (both MA, USA), discusses the recently published ‘Certainty Framework’ for assessing real-world data (RWD) and some of the broader challenges associated with assessing data fitness. Please could you introduce yourself, your organization(s) and give a brief overview of your career to date? I am an Epidemiologist in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. I direct a group of scientists who work in public health surveillance,...