Dr. Constanza Andaur Navarro is an Assistant Professor in Department of Data Science and Biostatistics at the Julius Center, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on Real-World Data, with a particular interest in developing methodologies and tools to assure data is ‘fit-for-purpose’ and can generate fast-paced, robust evidence.

Constanza obtained her PhD in Epidemiology from Utrecht University on a thesis about the Quality of Machine Learning Models, where she investigated how well models based on Machine Learning can be transportable to clinical settings. Soon after, she joined the Real-World-Evidence group at the Department of Data Science and Biostatistics to work as a researcher in ConcePTION (imi-conception.eu), a European public-private partnership to accelerate the evidence regarding medicines’ safety during pregnancy and lactation. She also co-led WP7 on “Information and data governance, ethics, technology, data catalogue and quality”. 

In addition to her academic work, Constanza collaborates with industry partners and regulators to translate research into policy, including post-authorization safety studies on COVID vaccines and medicines through VAC4EU, a European collaboration to carry on studies on vaccines safety (vac4eu.org). She has published extensively in high impact journals and regularly presents at international conferences (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7745-2887).

Beyond her academic responsibilities, Constanza is passionate about teaching and mentoring. She teaches courses on Real-World-Evidence for statisticians and Using Data from Routine Care for data scientists and supervises both master and PhD students.