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2025 UW Biostatistics against a background depicting purple and pink tinted mountain range
2025 Highlights for UW Biostatistics
A look back at member accomplishments in the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics during 2025.
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Illustration depicting causal inference with a question mark in the center with solid and dotted lines stretching out to point to data, figures, and drawing representing humans.
Using causal inference to advance public health and medicine
A wrap-up of the Seventh Seattle Symposium in BiostatisticsBiostatistical leaders from around the world came together at the Seventh Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics on November 22-25 to explore the evolving role of causal inference in biomedical research.
Awan Afiaz
Awan Afiaz
Democratizing AI: Scorcher project brings statistical tools to cancer researchers
Awan Afiaz, a biostatistics PhD student in the University of Washington School of Public Health, is part of a research team developing software to help clinicians working in cancer research close this gap.
Photo of lone student waiting on light rail platform
Photo of lone student waiting on light rail platform
Past quarter century sees rise in youth loneliness
UW School of Public Health,

Loneliness has been increasing amongst young people globally, and researchers have been trying to understand why. A study led by researchers at the University of Washington School of Public Health, including UW Biostatistics faculty Kwun Chuen Gary Chan, looked at how youth’s answers to loneliness questions in an international survey have changed from 2000 to 2022.   

2025 Admissions Information Sessions with collage of students studying or presenting research
2025 Admissions Information Sessions with collage of students studying or presenting research
Biostatistics admissions information sessions for autumn 2025
Announcing dates of upcoming admissions information sessions given by University of Washington Department of Biostatistics.