Bruce Weir, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, recently received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support student scholarships for the Summer Institutes in St

Biostatisticians from the University of Washington School of Public Health are working with the Washington State Department of Health to use existing COVID-19 models to understand the pandemic in Washington state and to inform policy and decision making.

A draft core protocol for COVID-19 vaccine trials was recently published by the

Biostatistics doctoral student Charles Wolock has been awarded a 2020 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF Fellows receive three years of funding support plus a cost of education allowance, for a total award of $114,000.

The University of Washington Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics have teamed up with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to involve UW students in efforts to prevent and treat HIV and other infectious diseases such as malaria, influenza, and tuberculosis.

A new study from an international team of experts – including a University of Washington School of Public Health biostatistician – examines the effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the novel