Special Interest Courses
About
Tufts CSDD’s Special Interest Courses are designed to address the most pressing challenges faced by drug development teams today, providing enrollees with practical and actionable strategies. Taught by industry experts, our courses offer a unique and valuable learning experience in a flexible setting. Through interactive lectures, case studies, and facilitated group discussions, participants connect and learn from peer-company colleagues.
Each course is 3 hours in duration and limited to 20 participants to allow for highly interactive engagement and networking opportunities. Courses include “Virtual Office Hours” two weeks afterward to provide additional opportunities for learning and discussion.
*To inquire about group rates, please email csdd@tufts.edu*
Alliance, Partner and Vendor Management
Most organizations utilize third party providers, whether they be strategic partners, collaborators, academics, or vendors, to deliver much of a project’s content and quality. Tufts CSDD’s Alliance, Partner and Vendor Management is an interactive course that will teach participants how to apply alliance management strategies to optimize their development plans. We will assess and apply a strategic partner framework as well as a service provider maturity model that can be applied to a wide variety of outsourced relationships to maximize productivity and reduce risk. These frameworks can be applied to the selection, management and contracting of third party providers.
The course will be 3 hours in duration and limited to 20 participants to allow for significant engagement and networking opportunities. To provide additional support for applying course lessons at work, we will schedule “Virtual Office Hours” two weeks after the course. This will allow participants to share success stories, gain additional insights and discuss some of their most pressing challenges with peers and instructors.
Managing Diverse Teams
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The course will be 3 hours in duration and limited to 20 participants to allow for significant engagement and networking opportunities. To provide additional support for applying course lessons at work, we will schedule “Virtual Office Hours” two weeks after the course. This will allow participants to share success stories, gain additional insights and discuss some of their most pressing challenges with peers and instructors.
Earn a Digital Course Completion Badge & Certificate!
- Showcase the knowledge and skills you acquired from the program.
- Share your learning achievements with clients, employers, and colleagues on online platforms and social media networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
April 2023
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May 2023
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September 2023
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Course Facilitator
Robert Franco, PhD
With over 24 years of consulting experience, Dr. Franco led PwC’s Pharmaceutical R&D practice where he specialized in improving pharmaceutical drug development, technology transfer, clinical trial operations, and manufacturing. Dr. Franco has worked with the senior management of several large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, NGOs, and multinational organizations to implement complex change management initiatives to improve growth, reduce costs, and remediate quality and regulatory issues. Dr. Franco has eight management consulting articles, 13 technical publications, and three patents to his name and has served on several international technical review and regulatory standards committees. He has a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science in biochemistry from the University of Rochester.
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Additional Topics Offered on a Varied Schedule
- Enhancing Productivity and Performance of Remote or Distributed Teams
- Accelerating Product Development: Advanced Project Planning Strategies
- Managing Strategic Partners, External Collaborators, and Service Providers