Karin A. Kasza, PhD

Dr. Kasza is an Assistant Professor of Oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. For more than a decade, her work has leveraged large-scale population-based datasets to investigate tobacco product use behaviors occurring in the ‘real-world’ to inform tobacco regulatory decisions for the betterment of public health. Dr. Kasza led seminal work from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, including establishing the Study’s foundational tobacco use estimates published in the New England Journal of Medicine. She has also worked extensively with the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project), where her work demonstrated effectiveness of smoking cessation medications when used in the general population, consistent with clinical trial-indicated medication efficacy. Dr. Kasza received her PhD and Certificate of Advanced Study in Applied Statistical Analysis from the State University of New York at Buffalo.