About
Specializes in issues related to responsible knowledge-based decision-making with focus on risk and safety of medicines, both from a practical, methodological and philosophical perspective. Works interdisciplinary between scientific evidence, practice, policy and philosophy. Research includes causality assessment in drug safety, clinical reasoning, analysis of expert disagreement.
Field of study
Clinical communication Decison making Adverse Drug Response Pharmacovigilance Health Literacy
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Causality, complexity and evidence in pharmacovigilance
Detecting unknown adverse reactions of marketed medicines is challenging and needs improved methods to assess causality, as well as improved quality of clinical observations.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Michele, Fusaroli,; Joseph, Mitchell,; Annette, Rudolph,;
Rocca, Elena
; Riccardo, Fusaroli,
(2025).
Causal Inference Tools for Pharmacovigilance: Using Causal Graphs to Identify and Address Biases in Disproportionality Analysis | Drug Safety.
Drug Safety.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-025-01628-4
Andersen, Fredrik; Anjum, Rani Lill;
Rocca, Elena
(2025).
When Decisions Must be Based on Partial Causal Knowledge: Analyzing Causality and Evidence for Health Policy.
Illari, Phyllis; Russo, Federica (Ed.).
The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods. p. 493-506.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003528937-56
Garmann, Tahmineh; Samdal, Hilde; Sartori, Daniele;
Jahanlu, David
; Andersen, Fredrik;
Rocca, Elena
(2025).
Strategies and Challenges in Coding Ambiguous Information Using MedDRA®: An Exploration Among Norwegian Pharmacovigilance Officers.
Drug Safety.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-025-01573-2
Anjum, Rani Lill;
Rocca, Elena
(2024).
A Dispositional Account of Causation: Implications for the Biological Sciences.
Yafeng, Shan; Shan, Yafeng (Ed.).
Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-Making and Mechanism. p. 95-121.
Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863485.003.0005
Leblanc, Marissa Erin; Williamson, Jon; Pretis, Francesco De; Landes, Jurgen;
Rocca, Elena
(2024).
Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: going beyond the Ottawa statement.
Critical Public Health.
Vol. 34.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2024.2338074
Anjum, Rani Lill; Price, Christine;
Rocca, Elena
(2024).
When Patient Voices Get Lost in Evidence Hierarchies: A Testimony of Rare Adverse Events and Participatory Epistemic Injustice in Drug Safety Monitoring.
Social Epistemology.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2024.2400079
Rocca, Elena
; Pérez-González, Saul
(2023).
Evaluating the relevance of epidemiological studies for the single patient: How can evidence of mechanisms help?.
Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice.
Vol. 29.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13859
Pérez-González, Saul;
Rocca, Elena
(2022).
Evidence of Biological Mechanisms and Health Predictions: An Insight into Clinical Reasoning.
Perspectives in biology and medicine.
Vol. 65.
https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2022.0005
Anjum, Rani Lill; Chandler, Rebecca;
Rocca, Elena
(2022).
Dispositions and Causality Assessment in Pharmacovigilance: Proposing the Dx3 Approach for Assessing Causality with Small Data Sets.
Pharmaceutical Medicine.
Vol. 36.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40290-022-00429-9
Rocca, Elena
; Grundmark, Birgitta
(2021).
Monitoring the Safety of Medicines and Vaccines in Times of Pandemic: Practical, Conceptual, and Ethical Challenges in Pharmacovigilance.
Argumenta.
Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.14275/2465-2334/202113.roc
