James Hammitt

Harvard Center for Risk Analysis

Harvard Environmental Economics Program

Center for Health Decision Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board (Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, and Chartered Science Advisory Board)

Toulouse School of Economics, LERNA-INRA (Laboratoire d'Economie des Ressources Naturelles, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)

Professor Hammitt's research concerns the development and application of quantitative methods—including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis—to health and environmental policy. Topics include management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties, such as global climate change and stratospheric-ozone depletion, evaluation of ancillary benefits and countervailing risks associated with risk-control measures, and characterization of social preferences over health and environmental risks using revealed-preference, stated-preference, and health-utility methods.

A.B. magna cum laude, 1978, Applied Mathematics, Harvard College
Sc.M., 1978, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
M.P.P., 1981, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Ph.D., 1988, Public Policy, Harvard University