Eric Liang Feigl-Ding was born on March 28,1983 and is an American public health scientist who is currently an epidemiologist and Chief of COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute.
25 Facts About Eric Feigl-Ding
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Eric Feigl-Ding is the Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International, and co-founder of the World Health Network.
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In January 2020, Feigl-Ding sounded an early alarm about COVID-19 and called for preparedness.
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Eric Feigl-Ding's call went viral on Twitter and was amplified by media outlets.
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Eric Feigl-Ding was born in Shanghai, and his family emigrated to the United States when he was five years old.
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Eric Feigl-Ding was raised in South Dakota and Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Shippensburg Area Senior High School and is an alumnus of the Pennsylvania Governor's Schools of Excellence.
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Eric Feigl-Ding completed his dual Doctor of Science doctoral program in epidemiology and doctoral program in nutrition from Harvard University in 2007.
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Eric Feigl-Ding was awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for his graduate studies.
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Eric Feigl-Ding is Chief of the COVID Risk Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute.
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Eric Feigl-Ding was a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.
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Eric Feigl-Ding is the Chief Health Economist at Microclinic International, as co-principal investigator of several intervention programs for obesity and diabetes prevention in the US and abroad.
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Eric Feigl-Ding developed a 130-year cohort study of Major League Baseball regarding the relationship between obesity and mortality in athletes.
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Eric Feigl-Ding has developed and led public health programs for Bell County, Kentucky, the Danish Ministry of Health, and as a report chairman for the European Commission.
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In 2006, while completing his doctorate at Harvard, Eric Feigl-Ding co-authored a study on COX-2 inhibitors that confirmed serious risks specifically associated with the drug, Vioxx, which Merck had withdrawn from the market two years earlier, in 2004, and which argued that Merck should have known about the risks.
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Eric Feigl-Ding founded Toxin Alert, as a public alert tool to warn communities about drinking water contaminations to prevent future lead poisonings like the Flint Water Crisis.
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Eric Feigl-Ding compared the virus pandemic potential to the 1918 influenza pandemic which has an estimated R0 of 1.8 and which killed ~50 million people out of 2 billion, and called for WHO and CDC to preemptively declare public health emergency and monitor aggressively the situation.
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Eric Feigl-Ding holds doctorates in both epidemiology and nutrition, with his professional experience in nutritional epidemiology and epidemiology of chronic disease.
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Eric Feigl-Ding has disclosed he is not sub-specialized in infectious diseases and claims to have never misrepresented himself as an infectious disease epidemiologist.
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Eric Feigl-Ding's rapid rise to prominence as a TV and media commentator and expert during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite his lack of academic activity in infectious diseases, has led to much criticism and controversy.
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Eric Feigl-Ding received early criticism for offering public warnings on the COVID-19 pandemic as well as praise from David Wallace-Wells, editor-at-large at New York Magazine.
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Eric Feigl-Ding was a candidate in the 2018 Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district.
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On February 27,2018, Eric Feigl-Ding announced his candidacy in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district.
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Eric Feigl-Ding campaigned on a progressive platform advocating for science, universal healthcare, and public health.
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Eric Feigl-Ding was invited to join the Global Shapers program of the World Economic Forum, and joined in February 2013.
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Eric Feigl-Ding received the CUGH's Global Health Project of the Year Prize in 2014, and the American Heart Association's Scott Grundy Excellence Award in 2015.