"Applying Global Health Principles to Avoid Infectious Disease Epidemics: The Ebola Example"

Elizabeth Talbot, MD

Associate Professor, Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth

Medical Scientist. Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics in Geneva, Switzerland

Deputy State Epidemiologist, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center 

Co-sponsored by Global Health and the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1. Review the application of global health and disease control principles to the West African Ebola epidemic response

2. Predict Ebola's impact on health services in West Africa

3. Strategize avoiding future infectious disease epidemics using OneHealth principles

Elizabeth Talbot, MD

Dr. Talbot is an infectious diseases- and tropical medicine-trained internist, who has had extensive experience in international and domestic disease control through outbreak investigation, clinical projects, research, and consultation.  She trained at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, and with the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, stationed in Botswana five years with the International Activities of the Division of TB Elimination.

She is currently an Associate Professor at the Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth, and is a consulting Medical Scientist for the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the Deputy State Epidemiologist for the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, and works with PATH, USAID PEPFAR and TB CARE II for global disease control activities, especially in Tanzania, Haiti, Swaziland, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Dr. Talbot has participated in the writing of state, national and international disease control guidelines, and has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications on tuberculosis, outbreak investigation and disease control.

Cook, Eat, Learn: Skills to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Partnerships with Patients—This year-long nutrition and culinary curriculum is open to all members of the Department of Medicine and rotating students. Join the DH Culinary Medicine Program staff at 7:30a every Friday before Medical Grand Rounds in the lobby outside Auditorium E and F for: