Dr Michael Pesko

Health Economist & Associate Professor

Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Biography

Michael Pesko is a health economist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University. Dr. Pesko uses natural experiments from e-cigarette policy changes to study benefits and drawbacks of allowing the sale of e-cigarettes as consumer products. He has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Cancer Institute, and the American Cancer Society. He is also a co-organizer of the Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (www.tobaccopolicy.org).