When pharmaverse first started we felt important to have our own working groups to drive topics of interest, but through our partnership with PHUSE we recognise that we could have more impact in collaboration so we recommend people towards contributing to the Data Visualisation and Open Source Technology (DVOST) working group projects.

Instead of working groups, we feel the strength of pharmaverse is bringing like-minded people together to support and knowledge share to help accelerate one another’s efforts.

The following are our currently active sub-communities:

• Package maintainers (lead: michael.s.rimler@gsk.com) - It’s not easy taking the burden of maintaining a package, so any package leaders for pharmaverse packages have each other to lean on as a support network!
• R Adoption (lead: juha-pekka.perttola@roche.com) - Connecting R enablement/strategy leads for clinical reporting from pharmaceutical companies to share the challenges of embedding R usage in this space.
• Blog (leads: Ben Straub, Edoardo Mancini, Kangjie Zhang, Gift Kenneth, Stefan Thoma) - Originators and co-ordinators of our very own pharmaverse blog site that is open for anyone to make an issue and propose a blog topic.
• Website (lead: ross.farrugia@roche.com) - To maintain our website and our end-to-end examples.

Membership of these communities are not linked to any specific organizations. Any individual can request to join, as long as able to add value in the required area.

If you are interested in joining, reach out to the respective lead above, as they would have final say on who joins.