S. Katharine Hammond, PhD
- BA, Chemistry, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA, 1971
- MS, Environmental Health Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts, USA, 1981
- PhD, Chemistry, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA, 1976
- Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, California, USA
- Research focuses on both environmental and occupational exposure assessment
- Certified industrial hygienist
- Developed widely used techniques to measure the concentrations of second hand smoke (environmental tobacco smoke)
- Trained researchers from over a dozen countries in the techniques to evaluate passive smoking exposure
- Member of committees of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
- Consultant to the Science Advisory Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (participated in the review of the environmental tobacco smoke documents, 1990-1992, that resulted in the official publication of Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders)
- Published over 100 articles in peer reviewed scientific literature and over 50 articles on passive smoking and smoking intervention
- Member author committee, US Surgeon General's upcoming report on involuntary smoking