Director:
Keryn E. Pasch, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Keryn E. Pasch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas, Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology with a minor in Interpersonal Relationships Research from Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota and her Master's in Public Health in Health Behavior and Health Education from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Pasch was also a National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer Prevention and Control in the Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at the Austin Regional Campus of the University of Texas School of Public Health. Dr. Pasch's research program focuses on the influence of food and beverage advertising and alcohol advertising on youth risk behaviors as well as the factors that may alter the influence of advertising on behavior. Currently, she has a NIH funded grant to document and describe outdoor food and beverage advertising around schools. Her research also focuses on how risk behaviors, including sleep, substance use, and obesity-related behaviors, may co-occur among youth as well as on developing preventive interventions to address these behaviors. Dr. Pasch is also the Chair of the Early Career Preventionist Network of the Society for Prevention Research.
Email: kpasch@austin.utexas.edu
Office: BEL 514
Phone: (512) 232-8295
Fax: (512) 471-3845
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Educational Background
2008 - National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship,
School of Public Health, UT Austin Regional Campus
2007 - Ph.D. University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minneapolis MN
Behavioral Epidemiology, Minor: Interpersonal Relationships Research
2003 - M.P.H. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
Health Behavior and Health Education
1998 - B.A. University of Illinois Chicago IL Major: Psychology, Minor: Sociology