Professor Anne W. Rimoin, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Anne W. Rimoin, Ph.D., M.P.H. is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
In 2004, she founded the UCLA-DRC Research program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the vast majority of her research is based. She collaborates closely with the DRC Ministry of Health, the Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale (National Institute of Biomedical Research and DRC National Reference Laboratory) and the Kinshasa School of Public Health.
Dr. Rimoin's methodological expertise is in the design and implementation of disease surveillance systems in low resource, logistically complex settings. She conducts epidemiologic studies to understand the epidemiology and ecological factors that influence the transmission and spread of these diseases. She is an internationally recognized expert on the epidemiology of human monkeypox and disease emergence in Central Africa.
A major focus of Dr. Rimoin’s research is vaccine preventable diseases in low resource settings.  Dr. Rimoin’s is currently working closely with the DRC Ministry of Health on assessing population immunity to vaccine preventable diseases and identifying immunity gaps.  She and her team provide technical assistance to the DRC government for disease surveillance, polio eradication and routine immunization.
 
Dr. Rimoin received her training at Middlebury College (B.A., History, 1992), UCLA School of Public Health (M.P.H, International Health and Nutrition, 1996), and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Ph.D., International Health, Division of Disease Prevention and Control, 2003).  She began her career in global health as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa. She has served as a consultant for the World Health Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and various national and international non-governmental organizations.
 

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