Anne Rimoin

Anne Walsh Rimoin (born c. 1970) is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose research focuses on emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), particularly those that are crossing species from animal to human populations. She is a Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health[1] and Infectious Disease Division of the Geffen School of Medicine and is the Director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health. She is an internationally recognized expert on the epidemiology of Ebola, human monkeypox,[2][3][4] and disease emergence in Central Africa.[5]

Anne W. Rimoin
Bornc. 1970 (age 50–51)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMiddlebury College (B.A. 1992)
UCLA (M.P.H. 1996)
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D. 2003)
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
InstitutionsUCLA School of Public Health
ThesisDiagnosis and treatment of group A beta hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis in children in low and middle income countries (2003)
Doctoral advisorMark Steinhoff

Rimoin's positions on COVID-19[6] health-related issues have made her an expert contributor to CNN,[7] The 11th Hour with Brian Williams,[8] and Real Time with Bill Maher.[9] In print, Rimoin's work has been featured in The New York Times,[10] The Atlantic,[11] Scientific American,[12] Nature[13] and National Geographic as well as more than 70 research articles[14] and book chapters. She was recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Since 2002, Rimoin has been working in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she founded the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training program to train U.S. and Congolese epidemiologists to conduct high-impact infectious disease research in low-resource, logistically-complex settings. Her research there has yielded several important discoveries including the emergence of monkeypox since the cessation of smallpox vaccination,[15] and novel strains of Simian Foamy Virus in humans. Her work led to fundamental understandings of the long-term consequence of Ebolavirus infection[16] in the oldest known cohorts of Ebolavirus.

Early life and education

Rimoin's parents are Maryann Rimoin and David Rimoin, a highly regarded Canadian-American physician noted for his contributions to research in the genetics of dwarfism and inheritable diseases.[17] 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 (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health, and her PhD at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also 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.

References
  1. Anne W. Rimoin, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA School of Public Health
  2. The virus hunter
  3. Emerging Epidemics: Anne Rimoin Hunts Monkeypox in the Congo River Basin
  4. Will monkeypox be the next smallpox?
  5. Lateline - 31/07/2014: Ebola spreading across West Africa
  6. Malta, Monica; Rimoin, Anne W.; Strathdee, Steffanie A. (2020-03-03). "The coronavirus 2019-nCoV epidemic: Is hindsight 20/20?". EClinicalMedicine. 20: 100289. doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100289. ISSN 2589-5370. PMC 7057189. PMID 32154505.
  7. "CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos". lite.cnn.com. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  8. Rimoin: 'We Can't Be Worried About Politics, We Need To Worry About A Virus' | The 11th Hour | MSNBC, retrieved 2020-03-29
  9. Dr. Anne Rimoin: Going Viral | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO), retrieved 2020-03-29
  10. Jr, Donald G. McNeil (2010-08-30). "Africa: Monkeypox Cases Surge in Rural Areas as Price of the Victory Over Smallpox". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  11. Yong, Ed (2017-12-14). "40 Years Later, Some Survivors of the First Ebola Outbreak Are Still Immune". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  12. "Emerging Epidemics: Anne Rimoin Hunts Monkeypox in the Congo River Basin".
  13. Hayden, Erika Check (2017-12-14). "Ebola survivors still immune to virus after 40 years". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-017-08664-w.
  14. "My Bibliography - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  15. Kantele, A.; Chickering, K.; Vapalahti, O.; Rimoin, A. W. (August 2016). "Emerging diseases-the monkeypox epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22 (8): 658–659. doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2016.07.004. ISSN 1469-0691. PMID 27404372.
  16. Kelly, J. Daniel; Hoff, Nicole A.; Spencer, D'Andre; Musene, Kamy; Bramble, Matthew S.; McIlwain, David; Okitundu, Daniel; Porco, Travis C.; Rutherford, George W.; Glymour, M. Maria; Bjornson, Zach (8 April 2019). "Neurological, Cognitive, and Psychological Findings Among Survivors of Ebola Virus Disease From the 1995 Ebola Outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo: A Cross-sectional Study". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 68 (8): 1388–1393. doi:10.1093/cid/ciy677. ISSN 1537-6591. PMC 6452000. PMID 30107392.
  17. Dr. David Rimoin, pioneering geneticist, dies at 75
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