JONATHAN M. SAMET

Dr. Samet is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and 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 School of Medicine where most recently he was Professor and Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division in the Department of Medicine.  At the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, he is Director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control 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 Consultant Editor and Senior Editor for Reports of the Surgeon General on Smoking and Health.  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 of the National Research Council.  He is presently Chairman of the National Research Council’s Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter.  He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.  In October, 2000, Dr. Samet was installed as the first Jacob and Ruth Fabrikant Professor of Health, Risk, and Society at the Johns Hopkins University.