Amita Manatunga, COPSS Chair, and Maya Sternberg, COPSS Secretary/Treasurer, interview Daniela Witten, recipient of the 2022 COPSS President’s Award.

A study published in the Aug. 22, 2022, issue of Nature Medicine identifies a new biomarker that appears effective as a surrogate endpoint to reliably predict the ability of broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies to prevent acquisition of HIV-1, the most common type of the virus that causes AIDS. Fred Hutch researchers Peter Gilbert, a research professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, and Yunda Huang, a UW affiliate associate professor of global health, are the paper’s co-first authors.

Ross Prentice is among the researchers who recently published a study in the Journal of Nutrition and Nutritional Epidemiology seeking to clarify the role that red and processed meat play in chronic disease risk in the diets of post-menopausal women. Hint: it’s complicated.

In a new study, a tool to help discover undiagnosed dementia performed well in 2 separate health systems. “Around 50% of people living with dementia are undiagnosed,” said lead author Yates Coley, PhD, assistant biostatistics investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) and an affiliate assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington.

When the World Health Organization (WHO) published an estimate of excess deaths worldwide during the COVID pandemic, Jon Wakefield expected some media interest. He did not anticipate a deluge of news stories and interview requests about the findings.

Being aware of melanoma overdiagnosis does not appear to curtail the rate at which dermatopathologists diagnose melanomas, according to a survey published in JAMA Dermatology. Corresponding author Kathleen Kerr, professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, is quoted.

Jen Nelson, director of biostatistics at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and a UW affiliate professor of biostatistics, is coauthor a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that was named Manuscript of the Year by the Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN).

Nearly 15 million people around the world have died from COVID's impact, directly or indirectly, during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new World Health Organization report. It’s also about three times higher than governments have reported so far. University of Washington's Jonathan Wakefield, whose modeling work helped produce the report, joins William Brangham for more.