Jonathan Samet , MD, MS Professor and Flora L. Thornton Chair
Department of Preventive Medicine
Keck School of Medicine
Director, Institute for Global Health
University of Southern California Dr. Samet is a leading authority on the health effects of smoking and air pollution. He has worked actively to promote tobacco control worldwide, and has addressed some of the most critical issues in environmental epidemiology, particularly in relation to air pollution.
As the director of the Institute for Global Health, Dr. Samet is a catalyst for enhancing collaboration among USC faculty in addressing global heath problems. The Institute for Global Health creates synergy among USC faculty across numerous schools, all with research and programmatic interests in the arena of global health.
Background
Professor and chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control and co-director of the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University.
Chair of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and of the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Research Council.
Consulting Editor and Senior Scientific Editor, Reports of the Surgeon General on Smoking and Health, including the 1985, 1986, 1990, 2004 and 2006 reports.
Research Interests
Research interests include cancer epidemiology, air pollution, the health consequences of active and passive smoking, respiratory disease prevention, risk assessment and public policy.
Studies by Samet and his colleagues have been critical in setting national air quality standards for particles and ozone.
Key studies on risks of secondhand smoke.
Studies of underground miners that are the basis for quantifying the risks of radon.
Studies of patterns of health and disease among the Hispanics and American Indians of New Mexico.
Degrees
Harvard School of Public Health, MS,
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, MD,
Harvard University, BS,
Awards
Recipient of numerous awards including two U.S. Surgeon General.
Received international recognition with the 2005 Prince Mahidol Award in Public Health, named for the father of modern medicine and public health in Thailand.
Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Jee S, Sull JW, Park J, Lee S, Ohrr H, Guallar E, Samet JM. Body-mass index and mortality in Korean men and women. N Engl J Med. 2006;355:779-787.
Yang GH, Fan L, Tan J, Guoming Q, Zhang Y, Samet JM, Taylor CE, Becker K, Xu J. Smoking in China: findings from the 1996 national prevalence survey. JAMA 2000; 282:1247-1253.
Samet J, Dominici F, Curriero FC, Coursac I, Zeger SL. Fine particulate air pollution and mortality in 20 U.S. cities, 1987-1994. N Engl J Med 2000; 343:1742-1749.
Editor of 19 books and monographs and has authored or contributed to 270 journal articles and 400 chapters, reviews, editorials and other publications.
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