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The University of Washington Biostatistics Department was well-represented at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), with faculty and students receiving awards both during and prior to the conference. Community members also had the chance to connect with colleagues at the annual UW Biostatistics/Statistics reception.
Kat Hoffman awarded ASA's Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship recognizing Hoffman’s methodological research developing machine-learning based methods drawing on causal inference on longitudinal interventions.
Affiliate Associate Professor of Biostatistics Jennifer Bobb was recognized by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) as an emerging leader for her significant methodological and applied contributions to the field of environmental biostatistics.
HIV Vaccine Candidates Fail to Reduce Infections
Precision Vaccinations,
Dr. Peter Gilbert shares insights about his work with HIV vaccine efficacy trials in relation to the recent PrEPVacc study. Gilbert said, "The result was that, for each vaccine, there is close to a 50-50 chance that the vaccine elevated acquisition risk vs. the vaccine was safe, as a synthesis of results over multiple ways to do the analysis, most importantly considering different prior distributions for vaccine efficacy."
36 new members elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Washington State Academy of Sciences,
Congratulations to Garnet Anderson (PhD ’89), senior vice president and director of the Public Health Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and an affiliate professor of biostatistics at the UW School of Public Health, who was one of 36 scientists named to the Washington State Academy of Life Sciences.