Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Dr. Anne Rimoin is a Canadian American epidemiologist. She is also the Director of the Centre for Global and Immigrant Health at the UCLA School of Public Health.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Dr. Anne Walsh Rimoin was born on June 16, 1970, to parents David Rimoin (father) and Maryann Rimoin (mother). Like Anne, her father was also a physician.
- She has two siblings – a sister, Lauren Rimoin, and a brother, Michael Rimoin.
- On December 27, 2014, Anne married Brook Claman in Los Angeles, California. Brook’s sister Liz Claman is a well-known TV anchor, who has worked for the Fox Business Network and CNBC in the past.
- Currently, Dr. Rimoin splits her time between living in Los Angeles and Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, when she’s working.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Anne grew up in California and attended the Miraleste High School in Rancho Palos Verdes.
- After graduating from Miraleste High School, she relocated to Vermont, where she attended Middlebury College from 1988 to 1992. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History, with a focus on African history.
- From 1995 to 1996, she studied a Master’s degree in Public Health at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
- She then attended Johns Hopkins University from 1998 to 2003, achieving a PhD in International Health.
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- In the early stages of her professional life, Anne was a peace corps volunteer in the US Peace Corps. She was stationed in Bopa, Benin, in West Africa, where she also worked as a researcher on Guinea worm eradication.
- From 2002 to 2004, she was a program officer for the National Institutes of Health.
- From 2014 to 2019, Anne has been an Associate Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
- Since 2019, she has been a full-time professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
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Significant Achievements :
- Dr. Anne’s research focuses on infectious diseases. She specializes in emerging infectious diseases, especially on ones that cross-species.
- She has been working in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2002. She works closely with the Congolese Ministry of Health to prevent and combat epidemic diseases.
- Anne is recognized as an international expert in Ebola, and her work has contributed to a greater understanding of the disease. She has also participated in Ebola vaccine studies, particularly in Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has worked alongside Dr. Jean Jacques Muyembe, considered the world’s foremost expert on the Ebola virus.
- Dr. Anne founded the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training program, and through it, has made enormous contributions to epidemiology research.
- Anne’s experience has made her a sought-after commentator on the topic of COVID-19, and she frequently appears as a contributor on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, as well as various shows on CNN and MSNBC.
- Anne has also contributed to print publications such as National Geographic, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Nature, and Scientific American. She has also written many book chapters and published numerous research articles.
- She is also a specialist in monkeypox and a fellow within the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). In Congo, she had set up the first study to analyze the dramatic changes in the epidemiology of monkeypox and viral hemorrhagic fevers over the past few decades.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- In 2011, Anne rescued a bonobo ‘Kyle’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She brought him to a bonobo sanctuary, where he was raised and released back into the wild in 2018.
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