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.

Dr. Elizabeth “Betz” Halloran, professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine.

Amy Willis, an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington has been awarded a $1.5M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve statistical tools used to profile the microbiome using sequencing.

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.