A recent study used machine-learning models to analyze medical records in an effort to identify risk factors for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). The findings, which appeared in the journal Circulation, not only revealed significant non-medical indicators of OHCA risk but showed that the models used were better at predicting OHCA than current approaches.

Spotlight on first year PhD student Kat Hoffman who talks about her research and the gap between the development of new methodology and practical application in the field.

PhD student Leah Andrews received the Most Outstanding Written Paper Award from the 2024 Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society (WNAR) student paper competition for her paper "Semiparametric Methods for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Regimens in Test-Negative Design Studies with Missing Data."

Biostatistics student Katie Paulson has been awarded a 2024-2025 Data Science and Demography Training (DSDT) Fellowship by the University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology (CSDE).

Congratulations to University of Washington Biostatistics alumnus Yiqun Chen (PhD, ’22) who will join the faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the department of biostatistics in January 2025 as an assistant professor.