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Ethan Ashby, a PhD student in Biostatistics PhD at the University of Washington, has received a Distinguished Student Paper Award from the International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (ENAR) for his paper, “Debiasing hazard-based estimates of time-varying vaccine effects using vaccine-irrelevant infections: An application to an observational extension of a Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine efficacy trial.”
A look back at member accomplishments in the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics during 2025.
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, 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.
Past quarter century sees rise in youth loneliness
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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.