Eric Feigl-Ding
Eric Feigl-Ding is a Chinese-American epidemiologist and health economist based in the Washington, D.C. area.
History
Education
Career
On May 26, 2007, Feigl-Ding launched the Campaign for Cancer Prevention on Facebook's fundraising platform, Causes.2) Funds raised were directed to Brigham and Women's Hospital.3)
In 2015, Feigl-Ding co-founded Happy Vitals, a family health data company.4) 5) He launched Toxin Alert at the end of 2016, supported by Happy Vitals and the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community through DC Global Shapers and Boston Global Shapers.6) Toxin Alert was an initiative of the Future Health Foundation.
He participated in the Global Burden of Disease Study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.7) 8)
Feigl-Ding was a candidate in the 2018 Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district.9) He ran a political action committee (PAC) called Health Justice for All.10)
COVID-19
Feigl-Ding participated as a speaker at the COVID Community Action Summit in January 2021.11) He co-founded the World Health Network.12)
Affiliations
- Awards from the American Heart Association
- Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Award from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)
- Advisor to the Danish Ministry of Health
- Award from Harvard College
- Faculty member at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School
- Chief Health Economist at Microclinic International15)
- Member of the COVID Risk Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute16)
- Fellow at the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans17)
- Advisor to the World Health Organization
Links to sort
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Chen, P. W. (2011, December 8). A Web Campaign for Cancer Prevention. New York Times. http://archive.today/2022.09.14-111234/https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/a-web-campaign-for-cancer-prevention/
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About Campaign for Cancer Prevention. Causes. Retrieved December 21, 2011, from https://web.archive.org/web/20111221220524/http://www.causes.com/causes/210-campaign-for-cancer-prevention/about
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Who We Are. Happy Vitals. Retrieved May 30, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20160530225926/https://www.happyvitals.com/who-we-are-our-mission
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Happy Vitals. (2015, October 13). Happy Vitals Launches First Laboratory Direct-to-Consumer Home Testing Kit for Breast Milk. PR Newswire. https://web.archive.org/web/20201127125729/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/happy-vitals-launches-first-laboratory-direct-to-consumer-home-testing-kit-for-breast-milk-300158235.html
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Home. Toxin Alert. Retrieved December 21, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20161221093210/https://www.toxinalert.org/
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Meet the Fellows | Eric Feigl-Ding. Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Retrieved April 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/HTBiV
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Mokdad, A. H., Forouzanfar, M. H., Daoud, F., El Bcheraoui, C., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Khalil, I., Afshin, A., Tuffaha, M., Charara, R., Barber, R. M., Wagner, J., Cercy, K., Kravitz, H., Coates, M. M., Robinson, M., Estep, K., Steiner, C., Jaber, S., Mokdad, A. A., & O’Rourke, K. F. (2016). Health in times of uncertainty in the eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet Global Health, 4(10), e704–e713. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(16)30168-1
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COVID Community Action Summit. New England Complex Systems Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221114183649/https://necsi.edu/c-cas#orgs
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Eric Feigl-Ding. New England Complex Systems Institute. Retrieved November 13, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182546/https://necsi.edu/eric-feigl-ding
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Hu, J. C. (2020, November 25). Covid’s Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding. Undark Magazine. https://archive.ph/ANnWw