Monica Hammer, JD is an environmental public health lawyer who works in health policy development, implementation, and research. She is lead author on a widely cited article on developing an effective response to address the adverse health effects of noise pollution in the United States, including Environmental Noise Pollution in the United States: Developing an Effective Public Health Response, published in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives in 2014 and “Applying a novel environmental health framework theory (I-ACT) to noise pollution policies in the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands” in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management in 2017.