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S. Katharine Hammond is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine, with a focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Speech and Hearing, Environmental Engineering, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
  • Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Environmental Research
  • Birth Defects Research
  • The Lancet Oncology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Clinical Epigenetics

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Hammond are:

  • "Carcinogenicity of acrolein, crotonaldehyde, and arecoline" (2020), The Lancet Oncology
  • "Air pollution exposure is linked with methylation of immunoregulatory genes, altered immune cell profiles, and increased blood pressure in children" (2021), Scientific Reports
  • "Traffic-related air pollution is associated with glucose dysregulation, blood pressure, and oxidative stress in children" (2021), Environmental Research
  • "Increases in ambient air pollutants during pregnancy are linked to increases in methylation of IL4, IL10, and IFNγ" (2022), Clinical Epigenetics
  • "Traffic-related air pollution, biomarkers of metabolic dysfunction, oxidative stress, and CC16 in children" (2021), Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology

Regular collaborators in Hammond's research include Elizabeth M. Noth, Fred Lurmann, John R. Balmes, Liza Lutzker, and Stephanie M. Holm.

Best Publications

  • Characterization of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Motor Vehicle Fuels and Exhaust Emissions

    Linsey C. Marr;and Thomas W. Kirchstetter;Robert A. Harley;Antonio H. Miguel

  • Brief secondhand smoke exposure depresses endothelial progenitor cells activity and endothelial function: sustained vascular injury and blunted nitric oxide production.

    Christian Heiss;Nicolas Amabile;Andrew C. Lee;Wendy May Real

  • Ambient air pollution impairs regulatory T-cell function in asthma

    Kari Nadeau;Cameron McDonald-Hyman;Elizabeth M. Noth;Boriana Pratt

  • A diffusion monitor to measure exposure to passive smoking

    S. Katharine. Hammond;Brian P. Leaderer

  • A randomized trial to reduce passive smoke exposure in low-income households with young children.

    Karen M. Emmons;S. Katharine Hammond;Joseph L. Fava;Wayne F. Velicer

  • Evaluation of vapor-phase nicotine and respirable suspended particle mass as markers for environmental tobacco smoke

    Brian P. Leaderer;S. Katharine Hammond

  • Collection and analysis of Nicotine as a marker for environmental tobacco smoke

    S. Katharine Hammond;S. Katharine Hammond;Brian P. Leaderer;Anne C. Roche;Marc B Schenker

  • Short-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Wheeze in Asthmatic Children in Fresno, California

    Jennifer K. Mann;John R. Balmes;John R. Balmes;Tim A. Bruckner;Kathleen M. Mortimer

  • Characterization of environmental tobacco smoke

    Goeran Loefroth;Robert M. Burton;Linda Forehand;S. Katharine Hammond

  • Airborne mold and endotoxin concentrations in New Orleans, Louisiana, after flooding, October through November 2005.

    Gina M. Solomon;Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski;Miriam Rotkin-Ellman;S. Katharine Hammond

  • Environmental monitoring of secondhand smoke exposure

    Benjamin J Apelberg;Lisa M Hepp;Erika Avila-Tang;Erika Avila-Tang;Lara Gundel

  • Childhood exposure to ambient polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is linked to epigenetic modifications and impaired systemic immunity in T cells

    K. M. Hew;A. I. Walker;A. Kohli;M. Garcia

  • Ambient air pollution and traffic exposures and congenital heart defects in the San Joaquin Valley of California.

    Amy M. Padula;Ira B. Tager;Suzan L. Carmichael;Suzan L. Carmichael;S. Katharine Hammond

  • Lung function in adults following in utero and childhood exposure to arsenic in drinking water: preliminary findings

    David C. Dauphiné;Catterina Ferreccio;Sandeep Guntur;Yan Yuan

  • Concentrations and Potential Health Risks of Metals in Lip Products

    Sa Liu;S. Katharine Hammond;Ann Rojas-Cheatham

  • The Association of Ambient Air Pollution and Traffic Exposures With Selected Congenital Anomalies in the San Joaquin Valley of California

    Amy M. Padula;Ira B. Tager;Suzan L. Carmichael;S. Katharine Hammond

  • Measurement of environmental tobacco smoke exposure among adults with asthma.

    M D Eisner;P P Katz;E H Yelin;S K Hammond

  • Endotoxin exposure-response in a fiberglass manufacturing facility.

    Donald K. Milton;David Wypij;David Kriebel;Michael D. Walters

  • Exposure to NO2, CO, and PM2.5 is linked to regional DNA methylation differences in asthma.

    Mary Prunicki;Laurel Stell;Deendayal Dinakarpandian;Mariangels de Planell-Saguer

  • Thirdhand cigarette smoke in an experimental chamber: evidence of surface deposition of nicotine, nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and de novo formation of NNK

    Suzaynn F Schick;Kathryn F Farraro;Charles Perrino;Mohamad Sleiman

  • Secondhand smoke in combination with ambient air pollution exposure is associated with increasedx CpG methylation and decreased expression of IFN-γ in T effector cells and Foxp3 in T regulatory cells in children

    Arunima Kohli;Marco A Garcia;Rachel L Miller;Christina Maher

  • Measuring secondhand smoke exposure in babies: the reliability and validity of mother reports in a sample of low-income families.

    Georg E. Matt;Melbourne F. Hovell;Joy M. Zakarian;John T. Bernert

  • Passive smoking on commercial airline flights.

    Margaret E. Mattson;Gayle Boyd;David Byar;Charles Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Balmes
John R. Balmes University of California, Berkeley
Ira B. Tager
Ira B. Tager University of California, Berkeley
Fred Lurmann
Fred Lurmann University of Southern California
Gary M. Shaw
Gary M. Shaw Stanford University
Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kari C. Nadeau
Kari C. Nadeau Harvard University
Belinda Borrelli
Belinda Borrelli Boston University
Karen M. Emmons
Karen M. Emmons Harvard University
Francine Laden
Francine Laden Harvard University
Jaime E. Hart
Jaime E. Hart Harvard University

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