{{Short description|American physician and epidemiologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jonathan Samet | image = | caption = Samet in 2023 | birth_name = Jonathan Michael Samet | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|03|26}} | birth_place = Newport News, Virginia | death_date = | death_place = | education = Harvard University (BA)<br />University of Rochester (MD)<br />Harvard University (MS) | prizes = Calderone Prize (2025) }}
'''Jonathan Michael Samet''' (born March 26, 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 served as dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. He was 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 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 |date=24 February 2010 |title=Jonathan Samet Curriculum Vitae |url=https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/TobaccoProductsScientificAdvisoryCommittee/UCM202333.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311075543/https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/TobaccoProductsScientificAdvisoryCommittee/UCM202333.pdf |archive-date=11 March 2016 |accessdate=19 September 2015 |publisher=FDA}}</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], serving in that capacity until 2023. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental and Occupational Health at the 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/> In 2025, Samet was awarded the Calderone Prize, the most prestigious award in the field of public health.<ref>{{cite web |title=Calderone Honors Recognize Public Health Leadership |url=https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/calderone-honors-spotlight-public-health-leadership |website=Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=29 May 2025}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Calderone Prize laureates}} {{Authority control}}
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