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S. Katharine Hammond
Alma mater
University of Massachusetts Medical School
UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
ThesisKinetics and mechanism of the reactions of molybdate and tungstate with catechol derivatives (1975)

Sally Katharine Hammond is a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Her research considers the impact of pollution and passive smoking on public health. It resulted in the Federal Aviation Administration issuing a ban on smoking on aeroplanes. Hammond serves on the World Health Organization study group on Tobacco Product Regulation.

Early life and education

Hammond was born in

University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1985.[5]

Research and career

In the 1980s Hammond demonstrated a device to monitor the health impacts of passive smoking.

secondhand smoke.[8] She also showed pregnant women who smoke transfer carcinogens through the placenta to their unborn children, increasing their risk factors for different cancers.[5]
Whilst in Massachusetts, Hammond encouraged parents to monitor their children's exposure to secondhand smoke, and used their findings as a means to motivate parents to stop smoking.

Alongside her research program into the impacts of first and secondhand smoke, Hammond studied how industry employees were impacted by their work environments.[5] She showed that in the semiconductor industry, women working with certain solvents were 40 – 90% more likely to have spontaneous abortions than the general population.[5] Her research informed several health policies to improve health and safety within research and development facilities.[5]

In 1995 she moved from the

University of Massachusetts Medical School to join the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.[5][9] At Berkeley Hammond leads the national Children's Health and Air Pollution study, which looks to understand and minimise the risks of air pollution on children's health in Fresno, California.[10] Fresno has been identified as one of the eight most polluted cities in the United States.[11] Her work showed that there is a direct link between pollution and children's immune systems; and that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon impacted Regulatory T cell function.[11][12] She has looked at whether air pollution impacts the risk of premature birth and birth defects, whether air pollution causes allergies, how it impacts metabolism and obesity and how transit patterns impact foetus development in pregnant women.[13] Amongst her research programs, she studies the impact of lead on the levels of lead in construction worker's blood and the impact of agrochemicals on the health of farmers.[14] She has shown that smoking Hookah can be as damaging to the lungs as the smoking cigarettes.[15]

Selected publications

She serves on the World Health Organization study group on Tobacco Product Regulation.[2]

Personal life

Hammond plays bassoon in the Prometheus Symphony Orchestra.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Katherine Hammond – Prometheus Symphony Orchestra". Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  2. ^ a b c "S. Katharine Hammond, Tobacco Product Regulation". Google Scholar.
  3. OCLC 10837037
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  4. ^ "Technical Advisory Committee". PSE | Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "03.01.95 - New Faculty Profile: Katharine Hammond". www.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
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    PMID 22296139
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  7. ^ Environmental Health Perspectives: Supplements. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. 1993.
  8. PMID 15187988
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  9. ^ "S. Katharine Hammond | Research UC Berkeley". vcresearch.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  10. ^ "The Team". Children's Health and Air Pollution Study. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  11. ^ a b Plevin, Rebecca (28 January 2014). "Is The Central Valley's Air Pollution Affecting Our Cells And Genes?". www.kvpr.org. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  12. PMID 20920773
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  13. ^ US EPA, ORD (2016-07-26). "NIEHS/EPA Children's Environmental Health Centers Children's Health and Air Pollution Study – San Joaquin Valley (CHAPS-SJV)". US EPA. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  14. ^ "S. Katharine Hammond". Center for Health Journalism. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  15. ^ "Hookah Smoking as Tough on Lungs as Cigarettes". MedicineNet. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
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