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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - David Rall Medal, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2004 - Prince Mahidol Award
  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jonathan M. Samet is affiliated with the Colorado School of Public Health in the United States. Their research spans across Environmental Science and Medicine, with a significant focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Physiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The primary topics of their work include Air Quality and Health Impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Radiation Dose and Imaging, Energy and Environment Impacts, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Radioactivity and Radon Measurements, and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting.

Samet's frequent co-authors consist of Kiros Berhane, Mary K. Schubauer-Berigan, Kaitlin Kelly-Reif, Ladislav Tomášek, and David B. Richardson.

Publications by Jonathan M. Samet have appeared multiple times in venues such as ISEE Conference Abstracts, American Journal of Public Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, Population Health Metrics, and Carcinogenesis.

Recent papers include:

  • Outdoor air pollution and cancer: An overview of the current evidence and public health recommendations (2020), CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
  • Wildfires, Global Climate Change, and Human Health (2020), New England Journal of Medicine
  • Mortality risk attributable to wildfire-related PM2·5 pollution: a global time series study in 749 locations (2021), The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Trends in the Age of Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Young Adults in the US From 2002 to 2018 (2020), JAMA Network Open
  • Reimagining Public Health in the Aftermath of a Pandemic (2020), American Journal of Public Health

Jonathan M. Samet has received several awards, including the David Rall Medal from the National Academy of Medicine (2015), the Prince Mahidol Award (2004), election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (1997), and was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1995).

Best Publications

  • Association of Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Sleep Apnea, and Hypertension in a Large Community-Based Study

    F. Javier Nieto;Terry B. Young;Bonnie K. Lind;Eyal Shahar

  • Sleep-disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease: cross-sectional results of the Sleep Heart Health Study.

    Shahar E;Whitney Cw;Redline S;Lee Et

  • Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in 20 U.S. Cities, 1987–1994

    Jonathan M. Samet;Francesca Dominici;Frank C. Curriero;Ivan Coursac

  • Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Hospital Admission for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases

    Francesca Dominici;Roger D. Peng;Michelle L. Bell;Luu Pham

  • Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the Expert Panel on Population and Prevention Science of the American Heart Association

    Robert D. Brook;Barry Franklin;Wayne Cascio;Yuling Hong

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking

    Michael Alavanja;John A. Baron;Ross C. Brownson;Patricia A. Buffler

  • Cancer risks attributable to low doses of ionizing radiation: Assessing what we really know

    David J. Brenner;Richard Doll;Dudley T. Goodhead;Eric J. Hall

  • Temperature and Mortality in 11 Cities of the Eastern United States

    Frank C. Curriero;Karlyn S. Heiner;Jonathan M. Samet;Scott L. Zeger

  • Predictors of sleep-disordered breathing in community-dwelling adults: the Sleep Heart Health Study.

    Terry Young;Eyal Shahar;F. Javier Nieto;Susan Redline

  • Relation between Elevated Ambient Temperature and Mortality: A Review of the Epidemiologic Evidence

    Rupa Basu;Jonathan M. Samet

  • Sleep-disordered breathing and mortality: A prospective cohort study

    Naresh M. Punjabi;Brian S. Caffo;James L. Goodwin;Daniel J. Gottlieb

  • Ozone and short-term mortality in 95 US urban communities, 1987-2000.

    Michelle L. Bell;Aidan McDermott;Scott L. Zeger;Jonathan M. Samet

  • The Global Burden of Disease Due to Outdoor Air Pollution

    Aaron J Cohen;H Ross Anderson;Bart Ostro;Kiran Dev Pandey

  • Epidemiology of Lung Cancer

    Anthony J. Alberg;Jonathan M. Samet

  • FASTING SERUM GLUCOSE LEVEL AND CANCER RISK IN KOREAN MEN AND WOMEN

    Sun Ha Jee;Heechoul Ohrr;Jae Woong Sull;Ji Eun Yun

  • Exposure measurement error in time-series studies of air pollution: concepts and consequences.

    Scott L. Zeger;Duncan Thomas;Francesca Dominici;Jonathan M. Samet

  • The Sleep Heart Health Study: design, rationale, and methods.

    Stuart F. Quan;Barbara V. Howard;Conrad Iber;Conrad Iber;James P. Kiley

  • The national morbidity, mortality, and air pollution study

    Francesca Dominici;Antonella Zanobetti;Scott L Zeger;Joel Schwartz

  • Body-Mass Index and Mortality in Korean Men and Women

    Sun Ha Jee;Jae Woong Sull;Jungyong Park;Sang-Yi Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesca Dominici
Francesca Dominici Harvard University
Patrick N. Breysse
Patrick N. Breysse Johns Hopkins University
Sun Ha Jee
Sun Ha Jee Yonsei University
John D. Spengler
John D. Spengler Harvard University
Michelle L. Bell
Michelle L. Bell Yale University
Frank D. Gilliland
Frank D. Gilliland University of Southern California
Frank E. Speizer
Frank E. Speizer Harvard University
Jennifer B. Unger
Jennifer B. Unger University of Southern California
James S. Goodwin
James S. Goodwin The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Anthony J. Alberg
Anthony J. Alberg University of South Carolina

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