Remembering Cecile Janssens

Rollins remembers A. Cecile J.W. Janssens (News release, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, September 14, 2022)

Remembering Dr. Cecile Janssens The Center for the Study of Human Health mourns the loss of our colleague and friend, Dr. A. Cecile J. W. Janssens who passed away on September 8, 2022. Cecile was one of the founders of the Epidemiology Focus within the Human Health major and her course, HLTH 279 Critiquing Health News, was a core component.

The Limits of Risk Prediction: Remembering Cecile Janssens October 17, 2022 by Marta Gwinn, Office of Genomics and Precision Public Health (OGPPH), Office of Science, Deputy Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance, CDC; Sara Bedrosian, Office of the Associate Director for Communication (OADC), Office of the Director, CDC; Muin J. Khoury, Office of Genomics and Precision Public Health (OGPPH), Office of Science, Deputy Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance, CDC

  A. Cecile J.W. Janssens , June 15, 1968 - September 8, 2022 Cecile Janssens was a professor of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta and a science columnist with the premier Dutch newspaper NRC. An expert on the genetic prediction of common diseases, she taught courses at Emory on ‘Critiquing Health News’ and ‘Critical Reasoning: Exploring the Science Behind the News’. She was awarded a Public Voices Fellowship by the OpEd Project, a US initiative to place underrepresented experts (especially women) in thought-leadership positions, and was an alum ambassador for the project’s online program. She wrote for the Huffington Post, Wired, The Conversation, the Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times, and her opinions were often quoted by journalists. At the time of her death at the age of 54, she had given over 200 invited lectures at conferences, seminars, symposia and international courses. At the time of her death, she was workin