Anne W. Rimoin, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine
Dr. Anne Rimoin is an internationally recognized expert on emerging infections, global health, surveillance systems, and vaccination. She is a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Infectious Disease Division of the Geffen School of Medicine. Her pioneering research in emerging diseases includes the identification of new pathogens in humans and studying Ebola, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Rimoin has been a strong advocate for capacity building in low resource settings and conducting disease surveillance in complex emergencies; she is currently leading a study of asymptomatic COVID-19 infection in Los Angeles health workforce and first responders. Dr. Rimoin has published more than 70 research articles featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, and Science. She appears frequently on television and radio discussing major issues surrounding disease emergence and has recently been a leading voice on the COVID-19 pandemic in national news for CNN and MSNBC. Dr. Rimoin earned her BA at Middlebury College, MPH at UCLA, and PhD at Johns Hopkins University.
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, virology and infectious diseases