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The authors thank the speakers and attendees for the successful first conference on big data for pharmacovigilance.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, 2004 Mowry Rd, PO Box 100231, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA

    Jae Min

  2. Drug Safety Research Unit, Southampton, UK

    Vicki Osborne, Elizabeth Lynn & Saad A. W. Shakir

  3. School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Vicki Osborne, Elizabeth Lynn & Saad A. W. Shakir

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Jae Min is a full-time PhD student at the University of Florida and has received an honorarium for writing the meeting report. Her travel was supported by the Center for European Studies and the Graduate Student Council at the University of Florida. Vicki Osborne, Elizabeth Lynn, and Saad Shakir are employees of the Drug Safety Research Unit, who sponsored this conference. Jae Min, Elizabeth Lynn, Vicki Osborne, and Saad Shakir have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the contents of this meeting report.

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Min, J., Osborne, V., Lynn, E. et al. First Conference on Big Data for Pharmacovigilance. Drug Saf 41, 1281–1284 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-018-0727-2

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