Staff: Mark Parascandola, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Mark Parascandola, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Program Director
Mark was a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 2000-2004. He completed his Master of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins University and then worked with the Tobacco Control Research Branch (TCRB) at NCI. As a fellow, Mark conducted an analysis of NCI research into "less hazardous cigarettes" over time, using archival records and tobacco industry documents. He also conducted two studies on causal inference and epidemiologic methods. Mark has continued his work in tobacco "harm reduction" and on epidemiologic methods. He joined the TCRB staff as an Epidemiologist and Program Director in 2004. Mark works with several Fellows and enjoys serving as a preceptor.
Current and/or past BRP mentees include Mandeep Virk-Baker and Iva Stoyneva.
Selected Publications and Presentations
- Sturke R, Vorkoper S, Duncan K, Levintova M, Parascondola M. Addressing NCDs through research and capacity building in LMICs: lessons learned from tobacco control. Glob Health Action 2016 Aug 19; 9:32407.
- Mehrtash H, Duncan K, Parascandola M, David A, Gritz ER, Gupta PC, Mehrotra R, Amer Nordin AS, Pearlman PC, Warnakulasuriya S, Wen CP, Zain RB, Trimble EL. Defining a global research and policy agenda for betel quid and areca nut. Lancet Oncol 2017 Dec; 18(12):e767-e775.
- Sinha DN, Gupta PC, Kumar A, Bhartiya D, Agarwal N, Sharma S, Singh H, Parascandola M, Mehrotra R. The poorest of poor suffer the greatest burden from smokeless tobacco use: A study from 140 countries. Nicotine Tob Res 2017 Dec 22.
- Bloch M, Parascandola M. Tobacco use in pregnancy: a window of opportunity for prevention. Lancet Glob Health 2014 Sep; 2(9):e489-e490.
- Parascandola M. Lessons from the history of tobacco harm reduction: The National Cancer Institute's Smoking and Health Program and the "less hazardous cigarette". Nicotine Tob Res 2005 Oct; 7(5):779-89.
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