Biostatistics alum Xihong Lin (MS ’92, PhD ’94) is the recipient of the 2021 L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics. The award is presented by the Department of Biostatistics at the Boston University School of Public Health. Lin, a pioneer in statistical methods for analysis of whole genome sequencing studies, was also recently named one of 50 Changemakers of Public Health by the UW School of Public Health.

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

UW Center for Biomedical Statistics (CBS) staff member Sarah Monsell co-authored this recently published study.

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.