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PhD candidate Aaron Hudson has been awarded the 2021 David P. Byar Award by the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Biometric Section.


Competence in data science has become essential for health services and health outcomes researchers. Today’s data-driven challenges require an understanding of statistics, health econometrics, and predictive analysis.


Informative Q&A with Jennifer C. Nelson (PhD, ’99), director of Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and an affiliate professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health.


Gary Chan, professor of biostatistics and health services with the University of Washington School of Public Health, was recently voted president-elect of the


Democratizing DNA-based health risk scores
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Hutch News,
The Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) consortium at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center received a $9.8M grant to improve genetic risk prediction for cardiovascular disease in racially and ethnically diverse populations. “The goal is to create risk scores for cardiovascular and related diseases that work equally well in people of color as in European Americans,” said Charles Kooperberg, head of the Hutch’s Biostatistics Program and one of the principal investigators of the study. Kooperberg is also an affiliate professor of biostatistics with the University of Washington School of Public Health.