Professor
School of Public Health
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
hammondk[at]berkeley.edu
510-643-0289 Fax: 510-642-5815
http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/people/hammond.htm
Creative Achievements
Developed exposure assessment methodologies and evaluated exposures for epidemiology studies on:
• reproductive risks of work in the semiconductor industry, which resulted in the industry replacing, with less toxic substitutes, the solvent which probably caused the increased risk of spontaneous abortion and reduced fertility among fabrication workers;
• the association of lung cancer with exposure to diesel exhaust among railroad workers, which contributed to the California Air Resources Board's decision to label diesel exhaust a toxic air contaminant in 1998. This designation is promoting efforts to reduce diesel emissions from trucks, buses, and other vehicles.
• environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the home, the workplace, on airlines, and in prisons, which has contributed to the ban on smoking on airplanes. Served as a consultant to the USEPA in the preparation of their highly influential report on ETS and was an expert witness for OSHA in their hearing on regulation to control ETS in the workplace.
Current Research Interests
• Exposure of construction workers to lead and relationship to blood lead levels
• Environmental tobacco smoke exposures
• Measurement of urinary solvent metabolites and the relationship to other exposure assessment parameters
• Composition of particles, both in air pollution and occupational exposure
Key Publications
• Eisner MD, Wang Y, Haight TJ, Balmes J, Hammond SK, Tager IB. Secondhand smoke exposure, pulmonary function, and cardiovascular mortality. Annals of Epidemiology 17:364-373, 2007
• Solomon, Gina M., Hjelmroos-Koski, Mervi, Rotkin-Ellman, Miriam, Hammond, S. Katharine. Airborne Mold and Endotoxin concentrations in New Orleans, Louisiana after Flooding, October through November, 2005, Environmental Health Perspectives, 114:1381-1386, 2006.
• Mulcahy, Maurice, Evans, David S., Hammond, S. Katharine, Repace, James L. and Byrne, Miriam. Second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure and risk following the Irish smoking ban: an assessment of salivary cotinine concentrations in hotel workers and air nicotine levels in bars Tobacco Control 14; 384-388, 2005.
• Hammond, S. Katharine, Gold, Ellen, Baker, Robin, Quinlan, Patricia, Smith, William, Pandya, Robert, and Balmes, John. Respiratory Health Effects Related To Occupational Spray Painting And Welding. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 47:728-739, 2005.
• Hammond, SK and Emmons, KM. Inmate Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke in Correctional Facilities and the Impact of a Smoking Ban. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 15:205-11, 2005
Teaching
• PH 220C- Health Risk Assessment, Regulation, and Policy (UCB)
• PH 267B- Characterization of Airborne Chemicals (UCB)
Public and University Service
• Consultant, Science Advisory Board of the United States EPA
• Committee on Health Effects of Waste Incineration, National Research Council
• Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
• Expert witness for OSHA hearing on regulating ETS in the workplace and consultant to US EPA