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James Talbot
Dr. James Talbot is a Canadian public health physician based in 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,1) a Medical Officer of Health for the city of Edmonton, and Chief Medical Officer of Health for 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.2)
Talbot was a founding member of SIREVA, a project of the Pan American Health Organization,3) and the Alberta Real Time Syndromic Surveillance Network (ARTSSN), an “early-warning system” for influenza.4)
COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Talbot participated on the AHS COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Committee as a representative of the Alberta Health Services Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Deena Hinshaw.
Awards and recognition
In 1998, Talbot received the John Snow Award for Excellence in Sciences from the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).5)
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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
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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
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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
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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