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Meetings, Workshops, & Trainings

Types of Events

There are many events that support the Sentinel Initiative and maintain a strong community connection:

  • Announcements 
  • Conferences
  • Meetings 
  • Trainings
  • Webinars
  • Workshops

Each year, FDA partners with the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy to host the Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop. This workshop features perspectives from FDA leadership about the progress and direction of the Sentinel Initiative. It is also an important forum for FDA to engage with the community. Speakers are invited from academia, patient advocacy organizations, regulated industry, and others to discuss important topics to help shape the future of the Sentinel Initiative.

FDA also hosts webinars and training activities on a variety of topics, which are often recorded to widen participation. These trainings can occur with the Annual Sentinel Public Workshop or as separate events. FDA also engages the scientific community at professional conferences to share advances in methods and results from studies conducted in the Sentinel System.

See the table below for more events around the Sentinel Initiative.

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Title Type Date
2025 ISPE Annual Meeting Conference 08/22/2025
2024 16th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Regional Health Information Exchanges as Critical National Infrastructure: Supporting Federal Agency Missions
Assessing Treatment Effects in Observational Data with Missing Confounders: A Comparative Study of Practical Doubly-Robust and Traditional Missing Data Methods
2024 ISPE Annual Meeting Conference
Overview of CDER’s Real-World Evidence Demonstration Projects Webinar
Opportunities and Challenges in the use of Large Language Models for Post-Marketing Surveillance of Medical Products Webinar
Data-driven Phenotyping Algorithms for Acute Health Conditions: Applying PheNorm to COVID-19 Webinar
A PRocess guide for INferential studies using healthcare data from routine ClinIcal Practice to evaLuate causal Effects of Drugs (PRINCIPLED) Webinar
2024 Sentinel Innovation and Methods Seminar Series Webinar
2023 15th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
CHOC Tapped for Mental Health Expertise on National AI Project Involving Electronic Medical Records Announcement
Scalable Incident Detection via Natural Language Processing and Probabilistic Language Models Webinar
2023 Public Workshop: Optimizing the Use of Postapproval Pregnancy Safety Studies Workshop
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Best Paper of 2022: Novel Methods for Pregnancy Drug Safety ‎Surveillance in the FDA Sentinel System Webinar
39th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management Conference
Leveraging Missing Data and Measurement Error Approaches in Propensity Score-Based Analyses of Real-World Data Webinar
Multi-wave Validation Sampling to Improve Estimates Derived from Electronic Health Record Data Webinar
2023 Sentinel Public Training: Signal Identification Among Infants Following Maternal Medication Use During Pregnancy & Innovation Day Training
Cerner Enviza Collaborates with FDA to Develop Innovative AI Tools for Drug Safety and Real-World Evidence Studies Announcement
HealthVerity Being Evaluated for FDA’s Sentinel Initiative Announcement
Understanding the Use of Negative Controls to Assess the Validity of Non-Interventional Studies of Treatment Using Real-World Evidence Workshop
Ontology-Driven Weak Supervision for Clinical Entity Classification in Electronic Health Records Webinar
Identification and Mitigation of Source Mapping Issues in Structured Electronic Health Record Data Webinar
2023 Sentinel Innovation and Methods Seminar Series Webinar
Machine Learning in Distributed Data Networks like the FDA Sentinel System: Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations Webinar
2022 14th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Addressing Missing Data in Comparative Effectiveness Research Using EHR Data Webinar
An Overview of Sentinel’s Publicly Available Analytics Tools Webinar
Machine Learning for High-dimensional Proxy Covariate Adjustment in Healthcare Database Studies: An Overview of the Current Literature Webinar
Deep Learning on Electronic Health Records for Research in Pharmacoepidemiology: Examples From the Field of Oncology Webinar
Representing and Utilizing Clinical Textual Data for Real World Studies: An OHDSI Approach Webinar
38th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management Conference
Advancing the Use of Real-World Evidence for Health Technology Assessment – The NICE Real-World Evidence Framework Webinar
Can We Train Machine Learning Methods to Outperform the High-Dimensional Propensity Score Algorithm? Webinar
2022 Sentinel Public Training Day: Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting & Innovation Day  Training
Data Leakage Due to Care Provided Outside of the Study Electronic Health Record System: Potential Biases and Solutions Webinar
Do All Roads Lead to FHIR? Imagining FHIR as a Meta-Common Data Model for Research Webinar
An Introduction to Negative Control and Proximal Causal Learning Webinar
An Overview of the Sentinel Website for Health Advocates Webinar
2022 Sentinel Innovation and Methods Seminar Series Webinar
2022 Sentinel Community Building and Outreach Center Webinar Series Webinar
Synthetic Data to Support Reproducible Clinical Research: Opportunities and Challenges Webinar
2021 13th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Inverse Probability of Exposure and Censoring Weights for Marginal Structural Models Webinar
37th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management Conference
Adaptive Validation Designs: Premise and Methods Webinar
Natural Language Processing for EHR-based Pharmacovigilance: Current Progress and Future Directions Webinar
Measure What You Treasure - The Challenges and Opportunities of Collecting Real World Endpoints Webinar
Introduction to FHIR and Applications for Data Capture and Interoperability in Sentinel Webinar
Advanced Approaches for Evaluating Drug Safety in Pregnancy Webinar
The Development and Validation of a Real-World Mortality Variable Webinar
Introduction to the Signal Detection Analytics Core in the Sentinel Innovation Center Webinar
2020 Sentinel Public Training: Maternal Health and Pregnancy Training
2020 12th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Targeted Learning: The Bridge from Machine Learning to Statistical and Causal Inference Webinar
36th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management Conference
Data Curation in PCORnet® - Lessons Learned and Implications for Regulatory Decision-Making Webinar
Portability and Scalability of Computable Phenotypes: Trade Offs and New Trajectories Webinar
Harmonizing Electronic Health Records from Heterogeneous Systems via Automated Translation of Medical Concepts Webinar
Overview, Considerations, and Challenges in Integrating Structured and Unstructured Electronic Health Record Data into Common Data Models Webinar
Unsupervised Approaches for Phenotyping Using Electronic Health Record Data Webinar
2020 Sentinel Innovation Center Webinar Series Webinar
Sentinel COVID-19 Evidence Accelerator Series Webinar
Training on Sentinel Tools at University of Pennsylvania Training
35th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management Conference
CDER SBIA Webinar: An Introduction to FDA MyStudies: An Open-Source, Digital Platform to Gather Real World Data for Clinical Trials and Research Studies Webinar
2019 Sentinel Public Training: Applications in Medical Product Safety and Creating a CIDA Package Training
2019 11th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Implementation of Signal Detection Capabilities in the Sentinel System Workshop
Drug Safety in Pregnancy in a Large, Multisite Database: Advances in Analytic Methods, Querying Tools, and Supplemental Data Collection from Patients Webinar
34th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management Conference
Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy Public Webinar: Planned Next Steps to Advance the Sentinel System Webinar
2018 FDA Sentinel Industry Day Workshop
2018 Sentinel Public Training: Treescan Software Training
2018 10th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
FDA Patient Representative Webinar: The Sentinel System - FDA's Unique Safety Surveillance Tool Webinar
33rd International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management Conference
2017 Sentinel Public Training: Sentinel Distributed Database Training
2017 9th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
2016 Public Workshop: The Sentinel Postlicensure Rapid Immunization Safety Monitoring (PRISM) System Workshop
32nd International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management Conference
2016 8th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
2015 7th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Roundtable on Medical Countermeasures Surveillance: Findings from a Mini-Sentinel Medical Countermeasures Surveillance Field Test Webinar
Findings from a Mini-Sentinel Medical Product Assessment: Influenza Vaccines and Risk of Febrile Seizures Webinar
2014 6th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Findings from a Mini-Sentinel Assessment: Rotavirus Vaccines and Risk of Intussusception Webinar
Sentinel Common Data Model Current Capabilities Workshop
Payer Involvement in the Sentinel Initiative Workshop
2013 5th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Developing a Taxonomy of Surveillance Methods for Medical Product Safety Webinar
Brookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Findings from a Mini-Sentinel Medical Product Assessment Webinar
Expert Workshop on Overcoming Statistical Challenges to the Reuse of Data in the Mini-Sentinel Distributed Database Workshop
Expert Workshop on Patient and Consumer Engagement in FDA’s Sentinel Initiative Workshop
2012 4th Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Brookings Active Surveillance Implementation Council Meeting #4 Workshop
Sentinel Active Surveillance Roundtable: Multi-Payer Claims Database Workshop
Understanding and Discussing the Implications of the FDA’s Sentinel Initiative Workshop
FDA Sentinel Initiative Strategic Review Workshop
Brookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Overview of the Mini-Sentinel Pilot Webinar
Brookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Overview of FDA’s Sentinel Initiative Workshop
Brookings Active Surveillance Implementation Council Meeting #3 Workshop
Brookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Mini-Sentinel Accomplishments and Plans for Year Two Webinar
2011 3rd Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop
Brookings Active Surveillance Implementation Council Meeting #2 Workshop
Monitoring the Safety of the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine in Near Real-Time: Learnings from PRISM Webinar
Brookings Active Surveillance Implementation Council Meeting #1 Workshop
2010 2nd Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop Workshop