Won Kim Cook, PhD
Associate Scientist
Email
wcook@arg.orgPhone
510-898-5857EXTERNAL BIO LINK: My NCBI Link
Expertise
Influence of cultural conditions and socioeconomic disadvantage on Asian-American, adolescent, and young adult health, including alcohol use, obesity/overweight, and health care access; effects of alcohol policies on drinking; community-based participatory research to improve health of disadvantaged populations.
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Current Projects
- Disadvantage and Sociocultural Modifiers in Asian American Drinking (Principal Investigator)
- Alcohol's Harms to Others among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects (Associate Scientist)
- A Multi-Lingual Alcohol Measure Catalog/ Administration Tool - Phase II (Associate Scientist)
- Social, Developmental and Genetic Epidemiology of Alcohol Use Disorders (Associate Scientist)
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Completed Projects
- Alcohol Use among Asian American Adolescents & Young Adults: Do Subgroups Differ? (Principal Investigator)
- Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: National Alcohol Research Center (Associate Scientist)
- Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: Secondary Data Analysis (Associate Scientist)
- Cross-national Analysis of Alcohol & Injury (Associate Scientist)
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Selected Publications
- Cook WK, John I, Chung C, Tseng W, Lee JP (2017). Medicaid expansion and healthcare access: lessons from Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences in California. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 19 (4) 995-999 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W.K., Tseng, W., Tam, C., John, I., Lui, C. (2017). Ethnic-group socioeconomic status as an indicator of community-level disadvantage: a study of overweight/obesity in Asian American adolescents. Social Science & Medicine, 184 15-22 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook WK, Winston T, Bautista R, John I. (2016). Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Overweight in Asian American Adolescents. Preventive medicine reports, December; 4 233–237 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook W.K., Karriker-Jaffe K.J., Bond J., Lui C. (2015). Asian American problem drinking trajectories during the transition to adulthood: ethnic drinking cultures and neighborhood contexts. American Journal of Public Health, 105 :1020-1027. Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W.K., Bond, J., & Greenfield, T. (2014). Are Alcohol Policies Associated with Alcohol Consumption in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?. Addiction, 109 (7) 1081-1090 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook W.K., Caetano R. (2014). Ethnic drinking cultures, gender, and socioeconomic status in Asian American and Latino drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 38 (12) 3043-51 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook WK, Tseng W, Ko Chin K, John I, Chung C. (2014). Identifying vulnerable Asian Americans under Health Care Reform: working in small businesses and health care coverage. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 25 (4) 1898-921 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W. K., Bond, J., Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., & Zemore, S. E. (2013). Who’s At Risk? Ethnic Drinking Cultures, Foreign Nativity, and Asian American Young Adult Drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 74 (4) 532-541 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W.K. (2013). Controlling Underage Drinking: Fear of Law Enforcement or Internalized Normative Values?. Journal of Addiction and Prevention, 1 (2) 6-Jan Abstract or Full Text
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Cook, W.K., Chang Weir, R., Ro, M., Lim Ko, K., Panapasa, S., Bautista, R., et al(2012). Improving Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Health: National Organizations Leading Community Research Initiatives. Progress in Community Health Partnerships, 6 (1) 33-41 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W.K., Mulia, N., & Karriker-Jaffe, K.J. (2012). Ethnic Drinking Cultures and Alcohol Use among Asian American Adults: Findings from a National Survey. Alcohol & Alcoholism, 47 340-348 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W.K. & Cherpitel, C. (2012). Access to health care and heavy drinking in patients with diabetes and hypertension. Substance Use & Misuse, 47 (6) 726-733 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W.K. (2011). Paid Sick Days and Health Care Use: An Analysis of the 2007 National Health Interview Survey Data. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 4 771-779 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W.K., Hofstetter, R., Khang, Mi., Hovell, M.F., & Irvi, V. (2009). Rethinking Acculturation: A Study of Alcohol Use of Korean American Adolescents in California. Contemporary Drug Problems, 36 217-244 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W. K. (2008). Integrating research and action: a systematic review of community-based participatory research to address health disparities in environmental and occupational health in the USA. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62 (8) 668-676 Abstract or Full Text
