Dr. Anne Rimoin

Dr. Rimoin is a Professor of Epidemiology and Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is the Director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health and is a globally recognized expert on emerging infections, global health, disease surveillance systems, and vaccination. 

Rimoin has been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2002, 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.

Dr. Rimoin has been leading studies of emerging and vaccine preventable diseases for two decades. Her work has contributed to the fundamental understanding of the epidemiology of human monkeypox after the eradication of smallpox, long term immunity to Ebolavirus in survivors and durability of immune response to Ebola virus vaccine in health workers in DRC. Her current research portfolio includes studies of COVID-19, Ebola, Marburg, Monkeypox and vaccine preventable diseases of childhood. She is considered one of the world’s leading subject matter experts on the epidemiology of monkeypox in Central Africa.

Dr. Rimoin earned her BA at Middlebury College, MPH at UCLA, and PhD at Johns Hopkins University. She started her career in global public health in as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa in the Guinea Worm Eradication Program.  She has been recognized for her achievements in the fields of Epidemiology and Global Health with the Middlebury College Alumni Achievement Award (2017), induction as a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2019) and the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Global Achievement Award (2022).