Evelyn O Talbott

Evelyn O. Talbott, DrPH, MPH, is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University Of Pittsburgh, Graduate School Of Public Health with a secondary appointment in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Her areas of expertise are in cardiovascular and environmental epidemiology and she has over 165 peer reviewed articles and book chapters that relate to these two areas. From 2002 until 2014 she was the Director of one of the CDC funded Academic Centers of Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking at the University of Pittsburgh. The Center has, for the past ten years, had as its primary goals to conduct activities that will assist in forming the basis of the CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN). (www.cdc.gov/nceh/tracking/) This project currently focuses on linking cardiovascular hospitalizations within the tracking states with USEPA modeled PM2.5. An additional project also involves the consideration of industrial and ambient air lead exposures and childhood lead levels also within the tracing network. This network currently has 23 state health departments participating. She received both her Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Department of Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh and has worked closely with both the state and local health departments to conduct health studies investigating potential linkage of environmental exposures and health effects. She conducted the Three Mile Island Mortality and cancer incidence study with the Pennsylvania Dept of Health. She served on a National Academy of Science committee entitled “NRC Committee on Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution”( 2008). Dr. Talbott is the primary instructor for the Environmental Epidemiology Course and Geospatial Analysis course within the Department and also primary advisor for students in this area. She was one of the founding members of ISEE, he International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and served as its Secretary-Treasurer for four years. ISEE is a 1000-member organization dedicated to environmental epidemiology research Dr. Talbott serves on numerous advisory boards and review committees including the Pennsylvania State Department of Health Technical Advisory Group for Environmental Public Health Tracking. In addition, her other areas of expertise involve risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women with Polycystic ovary syndrome. This condition affects approximately 10% of all reproductive aged women and has been shown to be associated with increased risk for T2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia and overweight, making this group at higher risk for Cardiovascular disease. She is a fellow of the American Heart Association and the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention. She has mentored and advised more than 75 doctoral and masters students within the Department of Epidemiology.