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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)

Affiliations

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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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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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Hu, J. C. (2020, November 25). Covid’s Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding. Undark Magazine. https://archive.ph/ANnWw
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