Anne Rimoin is a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Infectious Disease Division of the Geffen School of Medicine and is the Director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health.
13 Facts About Anne Rimoin
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Anne Rimoin is an internationally recognized expert on the epidemiology of Ebola, human mpox, and disease emergence in Central Africa.
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Anne Rimoin went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts degree in African History at Middlebury College, her Masters in Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, and her PhD at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Anne Rimoin served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa which is where she began her career in public health working on the guinea worm eradication initiative with UNICEF and the Carter Center.
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Anne Rimoin is a professor of epidemiology at both UCLA's Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health and the Infectious Disease Division of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
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Anne Rimoin is the UCLA Director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health.
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Anne Rimoin is well known as a strong advocate for global health equity and building research capacity in low resource settings, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Since 2002, Anne Rimoin has been working in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she founded the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training program to train US and Congolese epidemiologists to conduct high-impact infectious disease research in low-resource, logistically complex settings.
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Anne Rimoin's work led to fundamental understanding of the long-term consequence of Ebolavirus infection in the oldest known cohorts of Ebolavirus disease survivors and durability of immune responses to Ebolavirus vaccines in health workers.
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Anne Rimoin was recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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Anne Rimoin has appeared regularly on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, FOX Business, CNN, and Spectrum News etc.
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Anne Rimoin provided advice on COVID-19 Safety and presented a public service announcement at the 93rd Academy Awards about the importance of getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
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In print, Anne Rimoin's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Nature and National Geographic as well as more than 100 research articles.