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Samet received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1966, his Doctor of Medicine from the School of Medicine in 1970, and his Master of Surgery in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Jonathan Samet
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Career
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. Samet received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1966, his Doctor of Medicine In 1978, Samet joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico as an assistant professor, where he became an associate professor in 1982. 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.
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.
He also served as the director of Johns Hopkins" Institute for Global Tobacco Control from 1998 to 2008. 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 University of Southern California Institute for Global Health.
In 2011, he served as the chair of an International Agency for on Cancer working group regarding whether mobile phone use was carcinogenic. Samet"s research focuses on the health risks of pollutants such as air pollution, radon, and passive smoking.
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Surgeon General's Medallion; Prince Mahidol Award
The Surgeon General’s Medallion is the third highest award of the Public Health Service and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.; The Prince Mahidol Award is a Thai Royal Family annual award for outstanding achievements in medicine and public health worldwide.The Surgeon General’s Medallion is the third highest award of the Public Health Service and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.; The Prince Mahidol Award is a Thai Royal Family annual award for outstanding achievements in medicine and public health worldwide.