The course aimed to describe concepts of local and global health issues and also the pharmacoepidemiology in the broad context of therapeutic evaluation and drug decision-making. It focuses on the practice and research concerned with the health of groups of individuals and the equitable distribution of health within these groups. It prepares students to develop a methodology to study public health issues and medication use in large number of populations, reports adverse drug reaction and use post-marketing surveillances, drug utilization reviews in order to study the safety and efficacy of medications.