Q&A with Gary Chan, professor of biostatistics and health systems and population health, who is one of several University of Washington School of Public Health faculty and alumni playing key leadership roles in NIH efforts to improve AANHPI health data.

UW faculty member Daniela Witten discusses the importance of developing both hard and soft skills throughout a career, and assures trainees that they are fine just the way they are.

Student and staff members of the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics were honored with 2024 UW School of Public Health (SPH) Awards of Excellence at a ceremony held on May 14.

Spotlight on UW Biostatistics Student Research: In his first year as a biostatistics PhD student, Jasper Yang hoped to conduct meaningful research. After all, the chance to collaborate with University of Washington and other area researchers was one of the reasons he chose to attend UW.

A research team conducts an in-depth exploration of cryptic plasmid, pBI143, one of more than 68,000 plasmids found in the human gut and which 90 percent of people in the industrialized world possess, and find that pBI143 is much better at detecting human fecal contamination in water samples than the most current state-of-the-art markers, a crucial finding considering that human fecal pollution is a major global health problem.