Anne Rimoin
Anne W. Rimoin | |
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Born | c. 1970 (age 53–54) |
Nationality | UCLA School of Public Health |
Thesis | Diagnosis and treatment of group A beta hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis in children in low and middle income countries (2003) |
Doctoral advisor | Mark Steinhoff |
Anne Walsh Rimoin (born c. 1970) is an American infectious disease epidemiologist whose research focuses on
Early life and education
Rimoin's parents are Maryann Rimoin and
Career
She is a professor of epidemiology at both UCLA's Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH) and the Infectious Disease Division of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is the UCLA Director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health. Additionally, she is the Founder and Director of the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program. In 2020, she spearheaded the COVID-19 rapid response initiative for the protection and testing of front line workers in Los Angeles and to conduct critical research on SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic infection, immunity and associated epidemiology.
In 2021 she was appointed as the newly established Gordon–Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is well known as a strong advocate for global health equity and building research capacity in low resource settings, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Since 2002, Rimoin has been working in the
She was recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.[1]
Publications and media
Rimoin's expertise in emerging infectious disease and science communication have made her a regular subject-expert contributor for local, national and international news media outlets. She has appeared regularly on
In print, Rimoin's work has been featured in The New York Times,[7] The Atlantic,[8] Scientific American,[9] Nature[10] and National Geographic as well as more than 100 research articles[11] and book chapters.
Awards and memberships
- 2017 – Middlebury College Alumni Achievement Award
- 2019 – Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (FASTMH)
- 2022 - Johns Hopkins Global Achievement Award
References
- ^ a b "Anne W. Rimoin, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA School of Public Health". www.ph.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ "The virus hunter". www.the-scientist.com. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "Emerging Epidemics: Anne Rimoin Hunts Monkeypox in the Congo River Basin". www.scientificamerican.com. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "Will monkeypox be the next smallpox?". articles.latimes.com. 26 September 2010. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "Lateline - 31/07/2014: Ebola spreading across West Africa". www.abc.net.au. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "Dr. David Rimoin, pioneering geneticist, dies at 75". www.jewishjournal.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-27.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- ^ Yong, Ed (2017-12-14). "40 Years Later, Some Survivors of the First Ebola Outbreak Are Still Immune". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- ^ "Emerging Epidemics: Anne Rimoin Hunts Monkeypox in the Congo River Basin". Scientific American. Archived from the original on 2014-09-01.
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- ^ "My Bibliography - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
External links
- Anne Rimoin on Twitter
- Anne Rimoin publications indexed by Google Scholar