Keryn E. Pasch, M.P.H., Ph.D. is the Associate Chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas, Austin and an Associate Professor within the Health Behavior and Health Education program area. She is also the Director of Strategy and Planning for the Texas Center for Equity Promotion with the College of Education. 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. 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. Her research program focuses on the influence of marketing of unhealthy products such as tobacco, alcohol, food and beverages on youth and young adult risk behaviors as well as the factors that may alter the influence of marketing. Her research also focuses on how risk behaviors, including substance use, obesity-related behaviors, sleep, and caffeine consumption, may co-occur among youth and young adults.
Chilenski, SM., Pasch, KE., Knapp, A., Baker, E., Boyd, RC., Cioffi, C., Cooper, B., Fagan, A., Hill, L., Leve, L. & Rulison, K. (2020). The Society for Prevention Research 20 Years Later: A Summary of Training Needs. Prevention Science, 21(7), 981–1000.
Herrera, AL., Pasch, KE., Loukas, A., Marti, CN. & Perry, CL. (2020). Exposure to tobacco marketing in bars predicts subsequent use of multiple tobacco products among non-tobacco-using college students. Tobacco Control. doi:doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055195.
Kreitzberg, DS., Pasch, KE., Marti, CN., Loukas, A. & Perry, CL. (2019). Bi-Directional Associations Between Young Adults' Reported Exposure to E-Cigarette Marketing and E-Cigarette Use. Addiction, 114(10), 1834–1841.
Mantey, DS., Pasch, KE., Loukas, A. & Perry, CL. (2019). Exposure to Point-of-Sale Marketing of Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes as Predictors of Smoking Cessation Behaviors. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 21(2), 212–219.
Poulos, NS., Pasch, KE. & Laska, MN. (2019). Describing Food and Beverage Restaurants: Creating A Reliable Coding Tool. Health Behavior and Policy Review, 6(2), 152–165.
Kreitzberg, DS., Herrera, AL., Loukas, A. & Pasch, KE. (2018). Exposure to Tobacco and Nicotine Product Advertising: Associations with Perceived Prevalence of Use among College Students. Journal of American College Health, 66(8), 790–798.
Pasch, KE., Nicksic, NE., Opara, SC., Jackson, C., Harrell, MB. & Perry, CL. (2017). Recall of Point-of-Sale Marketing Predicts Cigar and E-Cigarette Use among Texas Youth. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntx237.
Herrera, AL. & Pasch, KE. (2017). Targeting Hispanic adolescents with outdoor food & beverage advertising around schools.. Ethnicity & Health. doi:10.1080/13557858.2017.
Velazquez, CE. & Pasch, KE. (2016). Youth Susceptibility to Food and Beverage Marketing: Associations with Unhealthy Food Preferences and Choices. Health Behavior and Policy Review, 3(5), 480–487(8).
Poulos, NS. & Pasch, KE. (2015). The Outdoor MEDIA DOT: The Development and Inter-Rater Reliability of a Tool Designed to Measure Food and Beverage Outlets and Outdoor Advertising. Health & Place(34), 134–42.
Velazquez, CE. & Pasch, KE. (2014). Attention to Food and Beverage Advertisements as Measured by Eye-Tracking Technology and the Food Preferences and Choices of Youth. Journal of the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 114(4), 578–82.
Pasch, KE., Latimer, LA., Cance, JD., Moe, SG. & Lytle, LA. (2012). Longitudinal bi-directional relationships between sleep and youth substance use.. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41(9), 1184–1196.
Velazquez, CE., Poulos, NS., Latimer, LA. & Pasch, KE. (2012). Energy drink consumption and alcohol use behaviors among college age youth.. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 123, 167–172.
Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science on Youth and Young Adults
Pasch (Co-I, Associate Director Statistics and Marketing Core), Perry (PI) National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute/Food and Drug Administration. 1P50 DA036116-01. ($19,678,428) 9/19/13 8/31/18
Texas College Tobacco Prevention Initiative
Pasch (Co-I), Loukas (PI) Texas Department of State Health Services.($750,000) 9/1/15 8/31/17
Defining Successful Media Partnerships
Pasch (Co-PI) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. ($499,986) 10/15/16 12/31/17
Service to the Society for Prevention Research Award, Society for Prevention Research (2021)
ECPN John B. Reid Early Career Award, Society for Prevention Research (2016)
Society for Teaching Excellence, The University of Texas at Austin (2011)
Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship, University of Bristol, Institute of Advanced Studies (2011)
