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