====== James Talbot ======

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Dr. **James Talbot** is a Canadian public health physician based in [[canada:Alberta]].

===== Education =====

Talbot was educated at the [[University of Toronto]] and the [[University of Alberta]].

===== Career =====

Talbot was previously Chief Medical Officer of Health for the Province of Alberta from 2012-2015,((Roth, P. (2012, November 8). //Alcohol misuse costs Alberta $1.6 billion per year according to Dr. James Talbot, chief medical officer of health.// [[Edmonton Sun]]. https://web.archive.org/web/20221027170105/https://edmontonsun.com/2012/11/08/alcohol-misuse-costs-alberta-16-billion-per-year-according-to-dr-james-talbot-chief-medical-officer-of-health)) a Medical Officer of Health for the city of [[canada:Alberta:Edmonton]], and Chief Medical Officer of Health for [[canada:Nunavut]]. He was also Director of the [[Public Health Laboratory]] (ProvLab) for Northern Alberta.

He is an Adjunct Professor in the [[University of Alberta]]'s School of Public Health.((//James Talbot | Public Health.// University of Alberta. Retrieved October 27, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221027170246/https://www.ualberta.ca/public-health/about/faculty-staff/adjunct-emeritus-faculty/talbot.html)) He served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for [[PolicyWise]].((Talbot, J. (2020, May 13). //Declaration of Interests and Confidentiality Form.// COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. https://web.archive.org/web/20221027173728/https://www.covid19immunitytaskforce.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CITF_COI-Form_James-Talbot.pdf)) ((Blackadar, R., & Talbot, J. (2017, October). //Board of Directors Manual.// PolicyWise. https://web.archive.org/web/20221027174127/https://policywise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-10OCTBoard-Manual.pdf))

==== COVID-19 ====

During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Talbot participated on the [[AHS COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group]] as a representative of the [[Alberta Health Services]] Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, [[Deena Hinshaw]].

He also served as co-chair of the [[Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association]]'s Strategic COVID-19 Pandemic Committee from November 27, 2020 to June 30, 2021.((//SCPC About Us.// ZMSA. Retrieved October 27, 2022, from http://albertazmsa.com/scpc-about-us))

Talbot was a member of the [[COVID-19 Immunity Task Force]].((Talbot, J. (2020, May 13). //Declaration of Interests and Confidentiality Form.// COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. https://web.archive.org/web/20221027173728/https://www.covid19immunitytaskforce.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CITF_COI-Form_James-Talbot.pdf))
===== Research =====

Talbot was a founding member of [[SIREVA]], a project of the [[Pan American Health Organization]],((Lovgren, M., Talbot, J. A., Brandileone, M. C., Casagrande, S. T., AgudeloC. I., CastañedaE., Regueira, M., Corso, A., Heitmann, I., Maldonado, A., Echániz-AvilésG., Soto-NoguerónA., HortalM., Camou, T., Gabastou, J.-M., & FabioJ. L. D. (2007). //Evolution of an International External Quality Assurance Model To Support Laboratory Investigation of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Developed for the SIREVA Project in Latin America, from 1993 to 2005.// Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 45(10), 3184–3190. https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00789-07)) and the [[Alberta Real Time Syndromic Surveillance Network]] (ARTSSN), an 
"early-warning system" for [[influenza]].((Smetanin, P., Biel, R. K., Stiff, D., McNeil, D., Svenson, L., Usman, H. R., Meurer, D. P., Huang, J., Nardelli, V., Sikora, C., & Talbot, J. (2015). //An Early Warning Influenza Model using Alberta Real- Time Syndromic Data (ARTSSN).// Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v7i1.5719))

He participated as a member of the [[Alberta Provincial Pediatric EnTeric Infection TEam]] (APPETITE), researching epidemiology, emerging organisms, and economics. The team was funded by [[Alberta Innovates]] and [[Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute]] with in-kind support from [[medical_technology_companies:Copan Diagnostics]] and [[Luminex]].((Freedman, S. B., Lee, B. E., Louie, M., Pang, X.-L., Ali, S., Chuck, A., Chui, L., Currie, G. R., Dickinson, J., Drews, S. J., Eltorki, M., Graham, T., Jiang, X., Johnson, D. W., Kellner, J., Lavoie, M., MacDonald, J., MacDonald, S., Svenson, L. W., & Talbot, J. (2015). //Alberta Provincial Pediatric EnTeric Infection TEam (APPETITE): epidemiology, emerging organisms, and economics.// BMC Pediatrics, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0407-7)) He worked alongside [[Martin Lavoie]], who went on to become Deputy Provincial Health Officer at the [[BC Ministry of Health]] under [[Bonnie Henry]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] and a representative on the [[National Advisory Committee on Immunization]] (NACI).

He has also had research funded by [[Alberta Health Services]] and the [[Alberta Ministry of Health]].((Drews, S. J., Simmonds, K., Usman, H. R., Yee, K., Fathima, S., Tipples, G., Tellier, R., Pabbaraju, K., Wong, S., & Talbot, J. (2015). //Characterization of Enterovirus Activity, Including That of Enterovirus D68, in Pediatric Patients in Alberta, Canada, in 2014.// Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 53(3), 1042–1045. https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02982-14))
===== Awards and recognition =====

In 1998, Talbot received the John Snow Award for Excellence in Sciences from the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC).((//James Talbot | Public Health.// University of Alberta. Retrieved October 27, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221027170246/https://www.ualberta.ca/public-health/about/faculty-staff/adjunct-emeritus-faculty/talbot.html))