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Ali Shojaie
Ali Shojaie
Ali Shojaie selected for 2022 Leo Breiman Award
Ali Shojaie, professor and associate chair of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the American Statistical Association’s 
Graduates attending the MS Capstone Program graduation event on March 18, 2022022
Graduates attending the MS Capstone Program graduation event on March 18, 2022022
Biostatistics honors 2022 graduates from MS Capstone program
Highlights from the graduation event held March 18, 2022.
Xihong Lin
Xihong Lin
Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,

Internationally renowned biostatistician Dr. Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, will be the recipient of the 2022 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science 

Medical staff review mammogram on computer screen. Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service
Medical staff review mammogram on computer screen. Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service
Getting real(istic) about overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening
Fred Hutch News,

In a new study, co-authored by Biostatistics faculty members Lurdes Inoue and Ruth Etzioni, researchers show reports of mammograms’ harms were exaggerated.

Global visualization of inferred human ancestral lineages
Global visualization of inferred human ancestral lineages
Massive New ‘Human Family Tree’ Includes 27 Million Ancestors
Gizmodo,

A team of scientists has combined modern and ancient genomes to build a new “genealogy of everyone,” in an achievement that sets the groundwork for future studies into our evolution and global spread. UW Research Professor of Biostatistics Sharon Browning is quoted.