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Mark Parascandola is an Epidemiologist with the Tobacco Control Research Branch of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI). He received his PhD in philosophy of science from Cambridge University and his MPH in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Parascandola also completed a NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship. He has authored numerous published articles on the role of epidemiology in tobacco control and public health policy and co-authored the textbook Foundations of Human Subject Protection. His areas of research interest include tobacco control policy, ethical issues in public health, and epidemiologic methods.
Select Publications and Presentations:
Parascandola M, Weed DL, Dasgupta A. Two Surgeon General's reports on smoking and cancer: a historical investigation of the practice of causal inference. Emerg Themes Epidemiol. 2006 Jan 10;3:1.
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.
Parascandola M. Science, industry, and tobacco harm reduction: a case study of tobacco industry scientists' involvement in the National Cancer Institute's Smoking and Health Program, 1964-1980. Public Health Rep. 2005 May-Jun;120(3):338-49. Review. No abstract available.
Parascandola M. Skepticism, statistical methods, and the cigarette: a historical analysis of a methodological debate. Perspect Biol Med. 2004 Spring;47(2):244-61.
Parascandola M. Hazardous effects of tobacco industry funding. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2003 Aug;57(8):548-9. No abstract available.
Parascandola M. Uncertain science and a failure of trust. The NIH radioepidemiologic tables and compensation for radiation-induced cancer. Isis. 2002 Dec;93(4):559-84.
Parascandola M, Weed DL. Causation in epidemiology. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2001 Dec;55(12):905-12. Review.
Parascandola M. Cigarettes and the U.S. Public Health Service in the 1950s. Am J Public Health. 2001 Feb;91(2):196-205.
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