Evelyn O Talbott is a Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Environmental Epidemiology Program, has been a prolific and respected faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health since the mid-1970s. Dr. Talbott’s work has centered on case-control and cohort studies of the health effects of populations exposed to personal or environmental risk factors, such as air pollutants and toxicants, both in the U.S. and globally. Her most recent work included several mapping-related linkage studies of air toxics. Throughout her long career, Dr. Talbott conducted the only 20-year cancer mortality and incidence cohort study of 31,000 individuals exposed to radioactive pollutants following the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and an investigation of leukemia risk among community residents in northeastern Pennsylvania affected by a gasoline spill, which occurred in the early 1990s and resulted in community exposure to gasoline vapors. Dr. Talbott is the course director of Geospatial Analysis in Community Health Studies in the Department of Epidemiology, and has mentored more than 120 doctoral and master’s students.
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