About Us

Sarah Kercsmar, PhD

Email: scave2@email.uky.edu

Telephone: (859) 261-1721

Sarah Kercsmar is Manager of the Northern Kentucky Office of the Clean Indoor Air Partnership.  She is currently working on the Northern Kentucky Clean Indoor Air Collaborative to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke and radon through policy change. 

She previously served as the Technical Assistance Coordinator and Community Advisor on the NHLBI-funded study to test the effects of a community intervention on smoke-free policy outcomes in rural communities (R01 HL086450-01) for the Clean Indoor Air Partnership.

Kercsmar received her undergraduate and master's degrees in communication studies from Marshall University. She completed her doctorate in communication at the University of Kentucky in 2007.

Kercsmar also brings professional experience in tobacco control to her work with the Clean Indoor Air Partnership. She served as the grassroots organizer on a successful tobacco tax campaign in West Virginia prior to returning to school to pursue her doctorate. She enjoys applied research that combines best practices from the field with the latest science to help uncover the best ways to address community-level issues.