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Professor
Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology; Director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control; Jacob I and Irene B. Fabrikant Professor in Health, Risk and Society
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Epidemiology
- Jonathan M. Samet, M.D., M.S., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Samet received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College, an M.D. degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and a Master of Science degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is trained as a clinician in the specialty of internal medicine and in the subspecialty of pulmonary diseases. From 1978 through 1994, he was a member of the Department of Medicine at the University of New Mexico. At the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, he is Co-Director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, a WHO Collaborating Center, and Co-Director of the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute. His research has addressed the effects of inhaled pollutants in the general environment and in the workplace. He has written widely on the health effects of active and passive smoking and served as Consulting Editor and Senior Scientific Editor for Reports of the Surgeon General on Smoking and Health and the National Cancer Institute’s Monographs on Tobacco Control. Most recently, he was Senior Scientific Editor of the 2004 and 2006 Reports of the Surgeon General, as well as chairing the Working Group for Monograph 83, Tobacco Smoking and Involuntary Smoking, of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. He testified against the tobacco industry in litigation brought by the State of Minnesota and the U.S. Department of Justice. He has edited books on the epidemiology of lung cancer and on indoor and outdoor air pollution. He has served on the Science Advisory Board for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and was Chairman of the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation Committee VI and the Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter of the National Research Council and serves on the Clean Air Science Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency. He presently chairs the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Research Council. For the Institute of Medicine, he was Chair of the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects, and Chair of the Committee on Evaluation of the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1997. He received the Surgeon General’s Medallion in 1990 and 2006 for his work on the Surgeon General’s Reports and the Prince Mahidol Award, from the King of Thailand, in 2005 for his work on air pollution.
Research Projects
A Case-Control Study Investigating the Intersection Between Tobacco Use, Tuberculosis and HIV-infection
The overall objective of this proposal is to investigate the association between tobacco use and tuberculosis in HIV-infected males in Johannesburg, South Africa where rates of all three epidemics are extremely high. We will conduct a case-control study restricting all participants to HIV...
Active Smoking: Multi-country Cotinine Study
The study uses a common protocol in China, Mexico, Brazil, and Poland exploring relationship between smoking habits, cigarette content, and nicotine dose. Recent analyses have addressed differences between less and more addicted smokers, differences in cotinine in “light” and regular cigarette...
Centers of Excellence for Education and Training in Tobacco Control
The Institute for Global Tobacco Control has been actively involved in developing curriculum and providing training in tobacco control in the United States and across the world. Since 2003 the Institute has established Centers of Excellence for Education and Training in Tobacco Control in three...
China National Plan for Tobacco Control
Organized by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Ministry of Health, P.R. China and World Health organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific, and the National Conference on Policy Development of Tobacco Control in China in the 21st...
Korean Cohort on Active and Passive Smoking
Large-scale cohort study of active and passive smoking and risk for cancer and other diseases among the Korean population. The cohort consists of over one million adult Koreans who had a physical examination as part of their care by the national health insurance program. Recent analyses have...
Mapping Tobacco Industry Activities in Southeast Asia
A map of tobacco industry strategies was developed using a structured conceptualization methodology known as concept mapping. The objective of the map was to develop a conceptual framework of tobacco industry tactics in four areas in Southeast Asia for the purpose of:
- Generating...
Risk Benefit Assessments
Developing a clinically applicable tool, usable in a variety of clinical and prevention settings, for estimating risks for smokers of developing disease. The IGTC has developed individual and population-based models to assess the risks and benefits of nicotine replacement therapy, as well as a...
Tobacco Control Course in Mexico
"Perspectives on Tobacco Control in Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean" is a one-week course offered in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in collaboration with Mexico''s National Institute of Public Health. Since 2000, the course has been offered every other year and is in high demand by students...
Tobacco Free * Japan: Recommendations for Tobacco Control Policy
Currently, in Japan, approximately 50% of the male population and 15% of the female population smoke tobacco. Smoking has been proven to be the cause of many health-related problems, and the Surgeon General''s Report on smoking is an important step toward better health. Key health and tobacco...
Tracking Tobacco Control Measures in Southeast Asia
The overall goal of this project is to build capacity in tracking and surveillance of tobacco control measures by development and use of data collection instruments for tracking and surveillance of tobacco control measures and industry activities that run counter to tobacco control. Four key...
WHO Report on Secondhand Smoke
To build policy frameworks for high and low resource environments with special emphasis on protecting vulnerable groups such as women and children. General policy recommendations to guide international SHS policy efforts will also be developed. In follow-up to the meeting, a report, to be...
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