Valerie J. Parker MSc

Valerie J. Parker is an Assistant Research Director at Duke-Margolis, managing one of the institute’s cooperative agreements with the US Food and Drug Administration as well as overseeing a core workstream of the institute’s Real-World Evidence Collaborative, focused on international regulatory efforts to harmonize real-world data and real-world evidence standards. During her time at Duke-Margolis, Valerie has collaborated and led projects on a range of topics including artificial Intelligence; digital health and data; rare diseases; and pharmacology. In addition to her work with the institute, Valerie has worked with Amgen Inc. as a manager on their Global Regulatory and R&D team, where she assessed and collated international regulator responses to COVID-19 clinical trial standards and laboratory developed tests. She began her career at Epic Systems Corporation where she worked as an implementation project manager. In this capacity, she was able to see first-hand health systems in action and how health care data is collected and stored. Valerie holds a master of science in Global Health and a bachelor of arts in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University, and she is an active member of the Duke alumni community.