About the Department
Welcome to the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics. Our mission is to serve as a source of expertise and focus for training and research in the quantitative aspects of public health and medicine, and to promote the use of rigorous quantitative methods in the biomedical and public health sciences. We continually strive to improve the high standards of our teaching, research and service.
Our faculty enjoy an excellent reputation in the field, and include internationally recognized experts in a number of areas, including survival analysis, clinical trials, HIV, AIDS and cardiovascular research, statistical genetics/genomics, epidemiology, health services, and environmental health. Faculty contributions include new methods providing considerable benefit to the public health, enabling investigators from government, academia and industry to more effectively identify, develop, and evaluate new therapeutic and preventive interventions, as well as to identify important risk factors of disease, including genetic components.
The Department is honored to be regarded as having one of the finest biostatistics graduate programs in the world, and is dedicated to providing future generations of biostatistical scientists with a topnotch education in theoretical methods and broad exposure to the art of application. The UW Department of Biostatistics attracts some of the finest students in the country; the majority of our entering Ph.D. students rank in the 90th percentile or higher on the analytical, quantitative and verbal sections of the GRE.