Global Drug Safety

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.

Pharmacovigilance Translation Services
Life Sciences SpecializationMedical and drug-safety expertise
ISO-Certified QualityControlled translation processes
150+ LanguagesGlobal multilingual coverage
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Case Intake & Safety Reporting

Adverse Event Reports

Adverse event reports and supporting source information for global safety programs.

Serious Adverse Event Reports

Time-sensitive SAE content requiring accurate medical terminology and careful handling of critical details.

Individual Case Safety Reports

ICSR content, narratives, follow-up information, and supporting case documentation.

SUSAR Reports & Communications

Suspected unexpected serious adverse reaction content and associated safety communications.

CIOMS Forms

Narrative and supporting information contained in CIOMS safety-reporting documentation.

Safety Narratives

Patient and case narratives with chronology, medical meaning, treatment information, and safety details preserved.

Aggregate Safety & Periodic Reports

Development Safety Update Reports

DSUR content supporting periodic safety reporting during clinical development.

Periodic Safety Update Reports

PSUR content, supporting sections, tables, summaries, and updated safety information.

Periodic Benefit-Risk Evaluation Reports

PBRER content across recurring reporting cycles, including safety and benefit-risk information.

Annual & Periodic Safety Reports

Recurring safety reports and associated updates across development and commercial programs.

Safety Summaries & Line Listings

Structured safety summaries, line listings, tables, narrative, and supporting documentation.

Risk Management & Post-Market Safety

Risk Management Plans

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 terminology Adverse events and medical conditions Drug, product, and active ingredient names Indications and medical histories Concomitant medications Laboratory tests and results Routes of administration Dosages and units Seriousness, severity, and expectedness terminology Causality language Product-specific safety concepts Sponsor-preferred terminology Previously 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.
Maintain Safety Terminology Across Cases and Reporting Cycles

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.

01

Intake

Review files, languages, deadlines, safety priorities, references, and project requirements.

02

Align

Prepare terminology, translation memories, product references, prior translations, and client instructions.

03

Translate

Assign qualified life sciences linguists to translate the safety content.

04

Review

Perform independent linguistic review for meaning, terminology, consistency, and completeness.

05

QA

Apply targeted human and technology-supported checks to critical text, data, formatting, and file integrity.

06

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.

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
PDF
XML
CSV
Safety database exports
CIOMS forms
Line listings
Tables & structured data
Tracked-change files
Narratives
Affiliate files
Reference documentation
Supporting graphics

Why Pharmacovigilance Teams Choose Sesen

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.

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.