Lurdes Inoue, PhD, MS, has been appointed as the next Gilbert S. Omenn Endowed Chair in Biostatistics for the University of Washington School of Public Health, effective Sept. 16.

A partnership between the University of Washington (UW) Department of Biostatistics and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Fred Hutch) has received an award from the American Statistical Association (ASA) for its work on dengue vaccine clinical research.

A recent article published in JAMA by the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (

Congratulations to Gary Chan, Kathleen Kerr, and Noah Simon, core faculty members in the Department of Biostatistics who were recently promoted to new appointments.