Dr. Elizabeth “Betz” Halloran, professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine.

Amy Willis, an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington has been awarded a $1.5M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve statistical tools used to profile the microbiome using sequencing.

Lurdes Inoue, PhD, MS, has been appointed as the next Gilbert S. Omenn Endowed Chair in Biostatistics for the University of Washington School of Public Health, effective Sept. 16.

A partnership between the University of Washington (UW) Department of Biostatistics and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Fred Hutch) has received an award from the American Statistical Association (ASA) for its work on dengue vaccine clinical research.

A recent article published in JAMA by the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (