"Alex's creativity and dedication culminated in an outstanding thesis, and its publication is a fantastic achievement," says Paynter’s advisor Amy Willis, an assistant professor of biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health and the paper’s co-author.

Four doctoral students and one recent graduate from the University of Washington Biostatistics Department were among the 2020 American Statistical Association (ASA) Student Paper best paper award winners.

Several faculty and alumni from the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics and School of Public Health serve in leadership roles for the new FDA Sentinel Innovation Center. Jennifer Nelson, who is director of biostatistics at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI), an affiliate professor of biostatistics at the UW, and a program alumni (PhD ’99), is one of these experts.

Congratulations to UW Biostat alum Joshua Keller (PhD,’16) and associate professor Adam Szpiro who served as first author and author, respectively, for “Measurement Error Correction for Predicted Spatiotemporal Air Pollution Exposures,” a paper that earned runner-up honors for the 2018 Kenneth Ro