UCLA Center for Global Health Security

Anne Rimoin Rural Lab

Advancing science to confront emerging health threats.

The UCLA Center for Global Health Security advances the science of global health security through innovative research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and global partnerships that deepen our understanding of emerging health threats and strengthen our ability to protect public health locally and globally.


Building on decades of leadership in infectious disease epidemiology, field research, and international scientific collaboration, the Center brings together researchers across disciplines to investigate emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, advance scientific discovery, and develop new approaches to complex public health challenges.


The Center's work focuses on three strategic priorities:

  1. Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health Research: Advancing research in infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance, vaccines, and One Health to better understand disease emergence, transmission, and population health risks.
  2. Scientific Innovation and Interdisciplinary Research: Connecting expertise across scientific disciplines to pursue new research questions and address emerging health threats.
  3. Public Health Preparedness and Capacity Building: Strengthening scientific capabilities, research partnerships, and workforce development to support public health preparedness locally and globally.

Guided by a Global to Local. Local to Global. approach, the Center builds on longstanding international research partnerships, including more than two decades of collaborative infectious disease research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while expanding opportunities for research and public health collaboration in Los Angeles and beyond.


Education and training are central to the Center's mission. Through UCLA's Global Health Certificate, LA Student Epi Corps, and international research and training partnerships, the Center prepares students and emerging public health professionals to address current and future health challenges.

Anne Rimoin

Anne Rimoin

Center Director, Professor of Epidemiology, Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, and Associate Dean for Global Health

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Center News

January 31, 2023
"The lessons and mysteries of mpox"

“We’re starting to see some data that suggests that asymptomatic infection and transmission is possible, and that certainly will change how we how we think about this virus and risk,” said Dr. Anne Rimoin, the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology.

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December 9, 2022
"It’s beginning to look a lot like another COVID surge"

The Atlantic interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about an apparent rise in COVID-19 infections in the United States after the Thanksgiving holiday.

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