Visiting Scholar: Creating a Global Tobacco Packing Surveillance Study

Monday, May 4, 2015

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

The Office for Research and the Department of Community Health and Prevention present: Visiting Scholar Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD, MA
Associate Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Katherine Clegg Smith is an associate professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she has been a faculty member since 2003. Dr. Smith directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Qualitative Studies in Health and Medicine. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Nottingham in the UK. She holds joint appointments in the departments of Oncology and Sociology and directs an MHS program in Social Factors in Health.  

Dr. Smith’s research focuses on the communication of health information, and how different communication mechanisms influence health outcomes.  Dr. Smith’s research has been funded by NCI, the American Cancer Society, CDC, The Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, UNICEF, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund and other private foundations. Much of her ongoing research is organized around individual and collective understanding of health issues and experiences.  Dr. Smith also specializes in applying qualitative and mixed methods to solving critical public health problems.  

Contact Information

Kyong Park
267.359.6037
kp573@drexel.edu