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{{Short description|American epidemiologist}}
'''Jonathan Michael Samet''' (born 1946 in [[Newport News, Virginia]])<ref name="cv">{{cite web | url=http://hscdm.unm.edu/hslic/oralhist/PDF/SametJOH.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151228091014/http://hscdm.unm.edu/hslic/oralhist/PDF/SametJOH.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=28 December 2015 | title=Jonathan Samet Curriculum Vitae | accessdate=19 September 2015 }}</ref> is an American pulmonary physician and epidemiologist who serves as dean of the [[Colorado School of Public Health]]. He is also the chair of the [[Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee]] of the [[Environmental Protection Agency]], as well as the [[Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee]] of the [[Food and Drug Administration]].<ref name="usc">{{cite web|url=http://globalhealth.usc.edu/Home/About%20Us/Directors%20and%20Staff/Jonathan%20Samet|title=Jonathan Samet|work=University of Southern California|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909200741/http://globalhealth.usc.edu/Home/About%20Us/Directors%20and%20Staff/Jonathan%20Samet|archivedate=9 September 2015|url-status=dead|accessdate=19 September 2015}}</ref>

==Education==
Samet received his A.B. from [[Harvard College]] in 1966, his M.D. from the [[University of Rochester School of Medicine]] in 1970, and his M.S. in epidemiology from the [[Harvard School of Public Health]] in 1977.<ref name=cv/>

==Career==
In 1978, Samet joined the faculty of the [[University of New Mexico]] as an assistant professor, where he became an associate professor in 1982.<ref name=cv/> In 1986, he became the Professor of Family, Community, and Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico's School of Medicine, as well as the chief of the Pulmonary Division there.<ref name=cv/> From 1994 until 2008, he was a professor at [[Johns Hopkins University]]'s [[Bloomberg School of Public Health]], as well as the Chair of the [[JHSPH Department of Epidemiology|Department of Epidemiology there]].<ref name=keck>{{cite web | url=http://www.usc.edu/hsc/info/pr/keckmed/winter09/samet.html | title=Faculty Profile: Making the World a Healthier Place | work=Keck Medicine Magazine | date=Winter 2009 | accessdate=19 September 2015 | author=Brust, Jane | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023002312/http://www.usc.edu/hsc/info/pr/keckmed/winter09/samet.html | archive-date=2015-10-23 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He also served as the director of Johns Hopkins' Institute for Global Tobacco Control from 1998 to 2008.<ref name="fdacv">{{cite web | url=https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/TobaccoProductsScientificAdvisoryCommittee/UCM202333.pdf | title=Jonathan Samet Curriculum Vitae | publisher=FDA | date=24 February 2010 | accessdate=19 September 2015}}</ref> In 2008, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California as the Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine, as well as the founding director of the USC Institute for Global Health.<ref name=keck/> In 2011, he served as the chair of an [[International Agency for Research on Cancer]] working group regarding whether [[mobile phone]] use was carcinogenic.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/31/mobile-phone-radiation-cancer-risk | title=Mobile phone radiation is a possible cancer risk, warns WHO | work=The Guardian | date=31 May 2011 | accessdate=19 September 2015 | author=Sample, Ian}}</ref> In 2017 he became dean of the [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/Pages/default.aspx Colorado School of Public Health].

==Research==
Samet's research focuses on the health risks of pollutants such as [[air pollution]], [[radon]], and [[passive smoking]].<ref name=usc/><ref name=keck/>

==Honors and awards==
Samet received the [[Surgeon General's Medallion]] in 1990 and 2006, the 2004 [[Prince Mahidol Award]] for Global Health awarded by the King of Thailand, and the 2006 Public Service Award of the [[American Thoracic Society]].<ref name=usc/> In 1997, he was inducted into the [[Institute of Medicine]].<ref name=usc/>

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