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Cascades Summit for Public Health (Part 1 of 2)

The Cascades Summit for Public Health will bring together leaders and practitioners from various industries to share how they are improving health and wellbeing of their communities. This interactive event will feature four panel discussions that highlight real-world examples and practical insights. Attendees will learn how businesses and industries improve health and where public health skills can be applied. They will leave with a deeper understanding of the connections between public health and industry and how knowledge sharing and collaboration can help build healthier communities. View Program and RSVP to Attend: https://sph.washington.edu/cascades-summit (this is a hybrid event, details are available in the link above) Wednesday, October 28th: Session 1: (1:00 - 2:15 p.m.) Building healthy communities through nature, movement, and place Session 2: (2:30 - 3:45 p.m.) Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Rural Health Wednesday, November 4th: Session 3: (1:00 - 2:15 p.m.) Optimizing Performance and… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: 101. Accessibility Contact: Janice North, jlnorth@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Event sponsors: School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, staff, external partners. Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM. For more info visit sph.washington.edu.

Biostatistics Seminar

Speaker, title, and abstract coming soon. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: HRC 135. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Academics. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, October 29, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Cascades Summit for Public Health (Part 2 of 2)

The Cascades Summit for Public Health will bring together leaders and practitioners from various industries to share how they are improving health and wellbeing of their communities. This interactive event will feature four panel discussions that highlight real-world examples and practical insights. Attendees will learn how businesses and industries improve health and where public health skills can be applied. They will leave with a deeper understanding of the connections between public health and industry and how knowledge sharing and collaboration can help build healthier communities. View Program and RSVP to Attend: https://sph.washington.edu/cascades-summit (this is a hybrid event, details are available in the link above) Wednesday, October 28th: Session 1: (1:00 - 2:15 p.m.) Building healthy communities through nature, movement, and place Session 2: (2:30 - 3:45 p.m.) Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Rural Health Wednesday, November 4th: Session 3: (1:00 - 2:15 p.m.) Optimizing Performance and… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: 101. Accessibility Contact: Janice North, jlnorth@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Event sponsors: School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, staff, external partners. Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM. For more info visit sph.washington.edu.

UW Biostatistics PhD Information Session

This Biostatistics PhD information session will be held via Zoom and led by our admissions manager. The session will review the degree program's focus, format, curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on work experience, post-degree job outlook, admissions requirements, application process, and more. Time will also be set aside to answer any questions you may have. Please RSVP to receive the information session link. Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Academics. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, November 5, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM. For more info visit www.biostat.washington.edu.

Biostatistics Seminar: Shrinkage Meets Parameterization: Bayesian Regression with Categorical Effects and Interactions

Speaker: Dan Kowal, PhD, Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Cornell University Presentation: Shrinkage Meets Parameterization: Bayesian Regression with Categorical Effects and Interactions Abstract: Regression analysis commonly features categorical variables and their interactions to model heterogeneous, group-specific effects. Such interactions are notorious for weak signals and cumbersome parameterizations, and thus require shrinkage. However, the overwhelming default for linear models—using dummy coding, removing a reference group, and applying shrinkage—leads to alarming (e.g. racial) biases, unwelcome asymmetries, and parameter incongruities across models. In this talk, I will advocate a different parameterization-prior combination that couples abundance-based constraints (ABCs) with suitable shrinkage priors. ABCs identify parameters using group-weighted averages instead of reference groups. This interpretable parameterization also offers a… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: HRC 135. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Academics. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, November 5, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

UW Biostatistics Master of Science Thesis Information Session

This Biostatistics PhD information session will be held via Zoom and led by our admissions manager. The session will review the MS Thesis degree program's focus, format, curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on work experience, post-degree job outlook, admissions requirements, application process, and more. Time will also be set aside to answer any questions you may have. Please RSVP to receive the information session link. Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Academics. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, November 12, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM. For more info visit www.biostat.washington.edu.

Biostatistics Seminar

UW Biostatistics Master of Science Capstone Information Session

This Biostatistics MS Capstone program information session will be held via Zoom and led by our admissions manager. The session will review the program's focus, format, curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on work experience, post-degree job outlook, admissions requirements, application process, and more. Time will also be set aside to answer any questions you may have. Please RSVP to receive the information session link. Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Academics. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, November 19, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM. For more info visit www.biostat.washington.edu.

Biostatistics Seminar: When Does Synthetic Data Augmentation Help in Imbalanced Learning?

Speaker: Anru Zhang, PhD, Professor & Vice Chair for Research of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics; Associate Professor of Computer Science, Statistical Science and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University Presentation: When Does Synthetic Data Augmentation Help in Imbalanced Learning? Abstract: Synthetic data are increasingly used to address data scarcity and imbalance in modern learning problems, especially when important outcomes are rare. In classification tasks with severe class imbalance, a common strategy is to generate synthetic minority samples and use them to augment the training set. Although effective in practice, the statistical benefits of this approach remain poorly understood: synthetic data augmentation may reduce the effects of imbalance, but it may also introduce bias if the generated samples do not accurately reflect the target distribution. In this talk, I will present a statistical answer to the question in the title. Specifically, I will describe a… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: HRC 135. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Academics. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, November 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Biostatistics Seminar: Razieh Nabi, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University

Speaker: Razieh Nabi, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University Title, and abstract coming soon. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: HRC 135. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Academics. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, December 3, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.