Vaccine hesitancy rose significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains a growing  challenge today. While previous studies have looked at the individual reasons people cited for delaying or refusing a vaccine, recent research led by UW Biostatistics faculty member Robin Mejia analyzed more than 310,000 responses from the U.S. Covid-19 Trends & Impact Survey (CTIS) to model how the different reasons selected by an individual might be related.

Congratulations to University of Washington Biostatistics faculty member Ting Ye on her promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2026.

University of Washington School of Public Health researchers are part of the new Population Genomic Screening Network (PGSN), an NIH-funded program piloting community-level testing for well-understood genetic conditions.

Check out this year's line-up of University of Washington Department of Biostatistics students, recent graduates, faculty, and alumni presenting at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston, Massachusetts August 2-6, 2026.

Highlights from the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics graduation ceremony held June 6, 2026. Students were celebrated for their academic accomplishments by faculty advisors and department leadership.

Congratulations to Yifan Lin, recipient of the Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence, and Gabriella Vasconcelos, recipient of Outstanding Doctoral Student, awared by the University of Washington School of Public Health.

Master’s student Yifan Lin developed a tool to help understand Alzheimer's and other diseases. Lin received the Omenn Award for Academic Excellence as a biostatistics master's student at the University of Washington.

University of Washington School of Public Health researcher Kevin Lin, along with his collaborators in the UW School of Medicine, recently received a $75,000 development award from the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) for a project examining this mystery through microglial resilience and data integration.