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Faculty Bio - Evelyn O. Talbott, Dr. P.H.
ProfessorDepartment of Epidemiology A526 Crabtree Hall University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh,PA 15261 Voice: 412-624-3074 FAX: 412-624-7397 E-mail: eot1@pitt.edu Evelyn O. Talbott, Dr. P.H., M.P.H. is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is an environmental epidemiologist with over 25 years of experience and is currently Principal Investigator of the University of Pittsburgh, Academic Partner for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking. The center is part of an 8 year CDC funded project and has as its primary goals to conduct activities that will assist in forming the basis of the CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN). This Project currently focuses on cardiovascular disease and PM2.5 for one of its projects and also at the potential sources of ambient lead in the environment and its effect on US childhood blood levels. The Academic Partners are charged with providing the tools and methods to conduct epidemiological investigations that will be the underpinnings of the network. Efforts in this area also include the application and refinement of a real time asthma surveillance system through the Allegheny County Health Department as well as techniques to link environmental triggers such as ozone and particulates to cardio-respiratory health outcomes. She received her Masters and Doctorate degrees from the Department of Epidemiology from this institution and worked with the PA state Health Dept to conduct numerous health studies investigating environmental exposures. . She recently served on a National Academy of Science committee entitled “NRC committee on Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution”. Dr. Talbott is the primary instructor for the Environmental Epidemiology Course within the Department and also primary advisor for students in this area. She was one of the founding members of ISEE, the 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. She has conducted numerous investigations into the relationship of various environmental exposures and health outcomes including a 20-year mortality follow-up of 31,000 individuals following the TMI accident in collaboration with the Pa Dept of Health. She is a fellow of the American heart Association and the Council on epidemiology and Prevention. She has mentored and advised over 70 doctoral and masters students within the department of Epidemiology . Research Interests My major interests are in environmental epidemiology and cardiovascular risk factors in women. Most recently I have been working in the area of environmental public health tracking and linking health outcomes to putative environmental risk factors. These include childhood lead poisoning, PM2.5 and cardiopulmonary outcomes and the study of cancer clusters. Education & Training
Positions and Honors 1971 - 1972 Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Department of Community Medicine, Chicago, IL 1972 - 1975 Teaching Fellow: Doctoral Student, Department of Epidemiology, GSPH, Univ of Pittsburgh 1976 - 1978 Instructor, Department of Epidemiology, GSPH, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1978 - 1989 Assist. Prof., Department of Epidemiology, GSPH, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1983 - 1990 Assistant Director, Center for Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Protection Agency 1992 - Present Member, Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 1997 - Present Associate Professor, (Secondary Appt.) Department of Speech Communication Sciences and Disorders 1990 - Present Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, GSPH, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2002 - Present Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1997 - Present Professor, Secondary Appointment, Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Honors 1988 - Present Delta Omega, Public Health Society 1984 - 1987 Special Emphasis Research Career Award (CDC/NIH) 1970 - 1972 U.S. Public Health Service Training Grant 1998-present Elected Fellow, American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention 2003 Pittsburgh Business Times, Health Care Hero in Health Care Innovations and Research (Hospital Council of Western PA) 2007-2009 Member, National Academy of Science Panel on Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution, NRC Memberships
Teaching Environmental Epidemiology 2220 Epidemiology Seminar Series 2250 Current Projects
NICHD National Children's Study: HHSN267200700002 This contract is for the establishment of study centers for the National Children's Study in Westmoreland County and in Marion County. The National Children's Study (NCS) is a longitudinal cohort that will examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of approximately 100,000 children. Pittsburgh Aerosol Research Inhalation Epidemiology Study: EP-P29581/C13936 Electric Power Research Institute has funded the University of Pittsburgh to conduct the Pittsburgh Aerosol Research Inhalation Epidemiology Study (PARIES) which is an academic research project to examine the relationship between air pollution and several health endpoints, particularly cardiovascular and respiratory morbidity and mortality, in the Pittsburgh region during the period 1999-2006. Health outcomes to be included are daily mortality, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits. The principal and co-investigators on the project are Richard Bilonick, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Evelyn Talbott, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (2009-2010). Heinz Endowments - Environmental and Personal Risk Factors in Childhood Autism The primary objective of this epidemiological study is to investigate the association of specific environmental factors with the risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) by conducting a population based case-control study of ASD In Southwestern Pennsylvania with cases recruited from autism clinics and treatment centers as well as local pediatric and family medicine practices. CDC - 200-2010-37443 - Air Quality and Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Effects The aim of this project is to advance the understanding of the association of ambient fine particulate air pollution with cardiovascular effects and make recommendations for further data and research needs within the Environmental Public Health Tracking program. CDC - 200-2010-37444 - Development of Environmental Exposure Assessment Methods This study will assess the impact of air lead on childhood lead poisoning through an ecological county level study, a case-control study, and an assessment of additional biomonitoring data through NHANES individual data on a US sample of children aged 1-5 for 1999-2004. Past projects
Selected publications (in chronological order)
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