Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 N Broadway
Baltimore,
MD
USA
21205
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Katherine Clegg Smith is a Professor in the department of Health, Behavior and Society in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Smith is a medical sociologist whose research and teaching focuses on how people come to understand their own health and health-related experiences. Her area of expertise is communication of health information. and she also has a general interest in identity and its relationship to health.
Professor Smith directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Qualitative Studies in Health and Medicine, and she was an author of the NIH Report of Best Practices in Mixed Methods Research for the Health Sciences. She has a number of ongoing studies in which she is exploring quality of life and care coordination for cancer survivors. Professor Smith’s other area of research is tobacco control. She is the principal investigator of the TPackSS study, a surveillance system of tobacco packaging in 14 low and middle income countries.
Papers:
SYMPOSIUM: HEALTH EXPERIENCES RESEARCH, ENGAGEMENT, AND DECISION MAKING