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 working on a book titled An Epidemiologist Reads the News: Why Health Reportage May Not Be as Healthy as You Think, to be published in 2022 by Oxford University Press (World English). [sourced from The Science Factory]