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Outbreak Investigation and Control: From the Basics to Ebola

Alumni Center - Centennial Hall
Tuesday, · -

The annual Mason Library Lecture delivered by Dr. Elizabeth Talbot. Dr. Talbot teaches at Dartmouth Medical School and is the New Hampshire Deputy State Epidemiologist. An infectious disease specialist, Dr. Talbot recently returned from a trip to Sierre Leone to assist with the Ebola response there.

Dr. Talbot is an expert on investigating and controlling infectious diseases. The lecture will focus on how physicians, researchers, and public health officials conduct investigations after the outbreak of an infectious disease like tuberculosis, hepatitis C, or meningitis. She will use the current Ebola outbreak in African as an example. She was in Sierra Leone last November for several weeks helping train health care workers on proper protocol and procedures for wearing and, especially for taking off, the protective gear they wear when in contact with patients. She herself was not in contact with patients but she self-quarantined when she returned.

Dr. Talbot has practiced medicine and provide expertise for managing disease in Haiti, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has written disease control guidelines for state, national, and international organizations, and written over 60 scholarly publications on disease control. She trained at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, and the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service in Botswana.

She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children and also enjoys writing fiction and playing the flute.

Contact:
Celia Rabinowitz
celia.rabinowitz@keene.edu
358-2736
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