Pharmacovigilance Translation Services for Global Drug Safety
Support global pharmacovigilance programs with specialized translation across individual case reporting, aggregate safety reporting, risk management, post-market surveillance, and safety communications.
From AE and SAE reports to ICSRs, SUSARs, DSURs, PSURs, PBRERs, RMPs, and safety narratives, Sesen helps drug-safety teams move critical information across languages with the speed, consistency, and control regulated workflows demand.
Time-Sensitive WorkflowsSupport for urgent safety content
Drug Safety Translation Where Speed and Consistency Matter
Pharmacovigilance content often moves under a different set of pressures than other life sciences documentation. An individual safety case may require rapid processing and reporting, while a DSUR, PSUR, PBRER, or Risk Management Plan may evolve across multiple reporting cycles, markets, reviewers, and product milestones.
In both situations, accurate translation is only part of the requirement. Safety teams also need terminology to remain consistent, critical numbers and dates to be handled carefully, recurring language to stay aligned, follow-up information to connect with earlier content, and multilingual files to move through defined review and delivery processes.
Speed Where Timelines Matter
Coordinated intake, translation, review, QA, and delivery for urgent and expedited safety content.
Consistency Across Cases
Product terminology, medical language, safety concepts, and approved translations can remain aligned across related cases and follow-up information.
Continuity Across Reporting Cycles
Translation memories, terminology resources, references, and controlled updates support recurring reports as safety content evolves.
Traceable Quality
Defined workflow stages, qualified linguists, independent review, technology-supported QA, and controlled delivery create a repeatable multilingual process.
Pharmacovigilance Translation Across the Safety Lifecycle
Drug-safety information develops continuously—from the first incoming case through expedited reporting, periodic analysis, risk management, post-market monitoring, and communication of new safety information. Sesen provides multilingual support across this broader lifecycle so global teams can manage individual documents without losing continuity between them.
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Case Intake & Processing
Accurate multilingual safety reporting begins with the information entering the case. Sesen translates source safety content used to capture and process adverse events while preserving clinical meaning and terminology from the beginning of the workflow.
Adverse event source information
Patient and reporter information
Medical histories and concomitant medications
Laboratory findings and treatment details
Safety case narratives
Follow-up case documentation
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Expedited Safety Reporting
Support time-sensitive safety reporting without removing the linguistic and quality controls that protect critical meaning. Workflows can be structured around short reporting timelines while retaining specialized translation, review, and focused QA.
AE and SAE reports
Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs)
SUSAR reports and communications
CIOMS forms
Case narratives and follow-up reports
Expedited safety communications
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Aggregate & Periodic Reporting
Maintain consistency across recurring global safety reports and reporting cycles. Translation memories, approved references, product terminology, and previous translations can help teams manage updates while keeping new content aligned with established language.
DSURs
PSURs and PBRERs
Annual and periodic safety reports
Safety summaries
Line listings and cumulative safety information
Benefit-risk sections, tables, and appendices
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Signal & Risk Management
Keep multilingual signal and risk content precise as safety knowledge evolves. Terminology management helps maintain alignment among safety concepts, product terminology, supporting documents, and previously approved language.
Risk Management Plans (RMPs)
Signal evaluation content
Risk assessments
Benefit-risk documentation
Risk-minimization materials
Safety review documentation
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Post-Market Surveillance
Support ongoing multilingual safety surveillance throughout the commercial product lifecycle as new cases, follow-up information, analyses, product safety updates, and revised risk information emerge across global markets.
Post-marketing adverse event materials
Surveillance documentation
Follow-up safety cases
Product safety updates
Safety monitoring materials
Affiliate safety content
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Safety Communication & Lifecycle Updates
Deliver consistent safety messages to regulators, healthcare professionals, patients, investigators, affiliates, and global teams while maintaining alignment with established medical, product, and safety terminology.
Safety letters
Healthcare professional communications
Investigator safety communications
Patient-facing safety information
Regulatory safety correspondence
Updated risk and product safety information
Pharmacovigilance Documents We Translate
Sesen provides specialized drug-safety translation across individual case reporting, periodic reporting, risk management, post-market surveillance, and safety communication.
RMP content related to safety concerns, pharmacovigilance activities, risk minimization, and evolving product risk information.
Risk-Minimization Materials
Materials designed to communicate or support implementation of product risk-minimization measures.
Signal-Management Content
Signal-related documentation, assessments, summaries, and associated communication.
Post-Market Surveillance Materials
Ongoing multilingual support for safety documentation generated throughout commercial product use.
Safety Data Exchange & Program Documentation
Operational documentation supporting collaboration among sponsors, partners, affiliates, CROs, and safety organizations.
Safety Communications & Operational Content
Healthcare Professional Safety Communications
Clear safety information intended for physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Investigator Communications
Safety notifications, updates, and supporting materials used within clinical research programs.
Patient Safety Information
Audience-appropriate safety content intended to help patients understand important product or treatment information.
Regulatory Safety Correspondence
Safety-related communication with health authorities and other regulatory stakeholders.
Affiliate & Global Team Communications
Consistent communication across central safety teams, regional organizations, affiliates, partners, and vendors.
Built for Time-Sensitive and Recurring Safety Workflows
Not every pharmacovigilance translation project should be managed the same way. An urgent ICSR or SAE report has different workflow needs from a PBRER that is updated periodically over several years. Sesen supports both through processes designed around the timing, content, and continuity requirements of the safety program.
Time-Sensitive Case Reporting
For AE, SAE, ICSR, SUSAR, follow-up reports, and urgent safety communications.
Rapid IntakeReview files, languages, timelines, references, and available prior case information quickly.
Terminology AlignmentApply product terminology, approved safety language, references, and prior translations where appropriate.
Specialized TranslationUse qualified life sciences linguists with attention to clinical meaning, chronology, dates, dosages, units, and case details.
Independent ReviewCheck accuracy, completeness, terminology, consistency, and contextual meaning.
Focused QAUse technology-supported and human checks to identify potential issues before delivery.
Controlled DeliveryPrepare final files according to the agreed workflow, format, and safety-program timeline.
Urgency should accelerate the workflow—not reduce the controls that protect meaning and consistency.
Recurring Safety Programs
For DSUR, PSUR, PBRER, RMP, recurring narratives, and post-market updates.
Approved Language ReuseLeverage previously reviewed translations so recurring safety language does not need to be recreated unnecessarily.
Translation MemoryIdentify and reuse repeated content appropriately to improve consistency across successive versions.
Terminology ContinuityKeep product names, safety terminology, sponsor language, and recurring expressions aligned across projects.
Version ManagementDistinguish changed and newly added content from previously translated sections.
Cross-Cycle ConsistencyMaintain continuity from one DSUR, PSUR, PBRER, RMP, or other reporting cycle to the next.
Scalable Program SupportCoordinate resources and workflows across languages, reports, affiliates, and recurring deadlines.
Recurring safety translation can become more consistent and efficient as the program matures.
Maintain Safety Terminology Across Cases and Reporting Cycles
Drug-safety terminology appears repeatedly across individual cases, narratives, aggregate reports, risk documentation, regulatory communication, and post-market updates. Sesen treats terminology as an ongoing program asset rather than a one-time translation decision.
Translation memories
Terminology databases
Product-specific glossaries
Reference translations
MedDRA-related terminologyAdverse events and medical conditionsDrug, product, and active ingredient namesIndications and medical historiesConcomitant medicationsLaboratory tests and resultsRoutes of administrationDosages and unitsSeriousness, severity, and expectedness terminologyCausality languageProduct-specific safety conceptsSponsor-preferred terminologyPreviously approved translations
Sesen supports the multilingual language layer of pharmacovigilance programs. Regulatory assessment, medical evaluation, case adjudication, safety decisions, and MedDRA coding remain with the sponsor and its designated pharmacovigilance and regulatory professionals.
Quality-Controlled Pharmacovigilance Translation
High-stakes safety translation requires more than fluency in two languages. It requires the ability to understand medical meaning, preserve case detail, manage terminology, recognize critical data, and apply a repeatable quality process.
Specialized Life Sciences Linguists
Projects are assigned to professional linguists selected for relevant medical, pharmaceutical, and life sciences expertise.
Independent Linguistic Review
A second qualified linguist reviews translated content for accuracy, completeness, terminology, language quality, and internal consistency.
Terminology & Reference Control
Available glossaries, translation memories, product terminology, previous translations, references, and client instructions are incorporated into the workflow.
Controlled Delivery
Final linguistic and file-level QA helps confirm that intended content has been translated, reviewed, and prepared in the required deliverable format.
Human Expertise + AI-Assisted QA
Technology can strengthen quality control by helping identify potential inconsistencies and production risks across large or time-sensitive multilingual files. These tools support professional review rather than replace it.
Qualified linguists remain responsible for interpreting context, evaluating clinical meaning, resolving linguistic ambiguity, and determining final translation quality.
Numbers
Dates
Dosages
Units
Terminology
Repeated content
Potential omissions
Untranslated text
Formatting anomalies
A Streamlined Workflow for Drug Safety Translation
Sesen combines specialized human expertise, terminology resources, translation technology, and quality controls within a repeatable production workflow.
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Intake
Review files, languages, deadlines, safety priorities, references, and project requirements.
Assign qualified life sciences linguists to translate the safety content.
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Review
Perform independent linguistic review for meaning, terminology, consistency, and completeness.
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QA
Apply targeted human and technology-supported checks to critical text, data, formatting, and file integrity.
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Deliver
Prepare final files and maintain relevant translation assets for future cases and lifecycle updates.
Supporting Global Pharmacovigilance Programs
Sesen works with life sciences organizations managing safety information across clinical development, regulatory activity, commercialization, and ongoing product surveillance.
150+
Languages for Global Safety Operations
Multilingual support for individual markets, multicountry clinical programs, central and regional safety teams, affiliates, CRO-managed programs, commercial portfolios, and recurring global reporting cycles.
Pharmaceutical Companies
Support global drug-safety operations across individual cases, recurring reports, risk documentation, post-market activity, and safety communications.
Biotechnology Companies
Scale multilingual pharmacovigilance support as products progress from clinical development toward registration, commercialization, and expanded markets.
CROs & Safety Providers
Provide dependable multilingual capacity across sponsor programs, safety documentation, case-related content, and recurring reporting requirements.
Regulatory, Medical & Safety Teams
Connect safety translation with adjacent regulatory, clinical, labeling, and medical communication workflows while maintaining consistent terminology.
Safety Systems, Structured Content & File Formats
Pharmacovigilance content rarely arrives as one clean document. A safety program may include Word narratives, Excel line listings, PDFs, structured exports, forms, tables, tracked changes, reference materials, and files produced by different teams or systems.
Sesen can coordinate translation, linguistic review, file preparation, formatting, and final QA across these inputs and prepare multilingual deliverables in the required project format.
Pharmacovigilance does not operate in isolation. Safety information can affect clinical documentation, regulatory submissions, product labeling, medical communication, and future lifecycle updates.
Clinical Trial Translation Services
Protocols, informed consent forms, site materials, patient content, safety documentation, and clinical reports.
Specialized safety-content expertise, controlled linguistic assets, human-led quality, and scalable global delivery support both individual projects and ongoing pharmacovigilance programs.
Pharmacovigilance-Aware Expertise
Medical and pharmaceutical linguists selected for safety cases, narratives, periodic reports, risk documentation, and related safety content.
Consistency Across Programs
Translation memories, terminology resources, approved references, and recurring linguistic assets connect projects into a controlled multilingual program.
Human-Led Quality
Professional linguists and independent reviewers remain responsible for meaning and language quality, supported by technology that strengthens consistency and QA.
Scalable Global Delivery
From one urgent safety case to recurring reports across multiple languages and markets, workflows can scale with program cadence and complexity.
ISO-Certified Quality Supporting Regulated Life Sciences Translation
Sesen combines specialized life sciences expertise with certified quality-management and translation processes. For pharmacovigilance programs, these practices support qualified linguistic resources, documented review, terminology control, confidentiality, and repeatable multilingual delivery.
ISO 17100Translation Services
ISO 9001Quality Management Systems
ISO 13485Medical Device Quality Management Systems
Pharmacovigilance Translation FAQs
Answers to common questions about drug-safety translation workflows, terminology, quality control, global programs, and structured content.
Sesen translates a broad range of drug-safety content, including adverse event reports, serious adverse event reports, ICSRs, SUSARs, CIOMS forms, safety narratives, DSURs, PSURs, PBRERs, Risk Management Plans, signal and risk-management documentation, post-market surveillance content, safety communications, line listings, supporting tables, and related pharmacovigilance materials. We support both individual documents and ongoing multilingual safety programs.
Yes. Sesen supports expedited pharmacovigilance translation workflows for time-sensitive safety content. Project timing depends on document volume, language combination, file condition, required review, and the specific reporting timeline. For urgent projects, our team can evaluate the files and establish a production plan that prioritizes rapid intake, specialized translation, review, targeted QA, and controlled delivery.
Yes. Sesen provides translation for aggregate and recurring pharmacovigilance reports including DSURs, PSURs, PBRERs, and Risk Management Plans. For recurring reports, previous translations, translation memories, glossaries, product terminology, and approved reference content can be incorporated into the workflow to improve continuity between reporting cycles.
Urgent case translation is typically driven by short operational or reporting timelines and may involve AE reports, SAE reports, ICSRs, SUSARs, narratives, and follow-up information. Recurring reporting involves larger documents such as DSURs, PSURs, PBRERs, and RMP updates that may build on substantial previously translated content. Sesen can configure different workflows for these operating models while maintaining consistent terminology and quality controls across the overall safety program.
Sesen can use client-approved glossaries, translation memories, product terminology, previous translations, reference documentation, and language conventions throughout a pharmacovigilance program. This helps maintain consistency for medical conditions, drug names, adverse-event terminology, dosages, routes of administration, safety concepts, product terminology, and recurring language across cases and reports.
Sesen can work with MedDRA-related terminology and client-provided MedDRA references as part of the translation process. Our role is linguistic: we help preserve established terminology consistently across languages and documents. MedDRA coding, medical assessment, case evaluation, and pharmacovigilance decisions remain the responsibility of the sponsor or its designated safety professionals.
Pharmacovigilance projects can combine professional translation, independent linguistic review, terminology management, translation-memory controls, and technology-supported QA. Checks can focus on areas such as names, numbers, dates, dosages, units, terminology, completeness, untranslated content, repeated language, and formatting while qualified linguists review clinical meaning and context.
Yes. Sesen can support ongoing programs involving multiple languages, recurring case activity, periodic safety reports, affiliate communication, terminology maintenance, translation-memory management, and repeated reporting cycles. Shared linguistic assets can help improve consistency and efficiency as the program develops.
Yes. Sesen can work with a variety of structured and unstructured safety files, including Word, Excel, PDF, XML, CSV, line listings, CIOMS forms, safety-database exports, tables, and supporting reference materials. The appropriate production workflow depends on the source format and required final deliverable.
Sesen supports translation and localization across more than 150 languages, enabling pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CRO, and drug-safety teams to manage multilingual content across major global markets. Contact Team Sesen with your target languages, content type, volume, and timeline so we can recommend the appropriate workflow.
Sesen specializes in the multilingual translation and localization layer of global pharmacovigilance programs. We do not replace the sponsor's pharmacovigilance, medical, or regulatory decision-making. Medical assessment, causality evaluation, case adjudication, coding decisions, regulatory strategy, and formal safety decisions remain with the sponsor and its designated professionals. Our role is to help ensure that the language carrying that information moves accurately and consistently across languages.
Support Global Drug Safety With Specialized Multilingual Expertise
Whether you are managing an urgent safety case, a recurring aggregate report, an expanding product portfolio, or a global pharmacovigilance program, Sesen can help keep multilingual safety information accurate, consistent, and controlled.
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