Won Kim Cook, PhD
Scientist
- wcook@arg.org
RESEARCH FOCUS
Risk relationship between harmful drinking patterns and chronic health outcomes; cultural, socioeconomic, and genetic predictors of Asian-American drinking and health; racial/ethnic differences in clustered health risk behaviors; effects of alcohol policies on drinking and alcohol-related harms; community-based participatory research to improve the health of disadvantaged populations.
FEATURED PROJECTS
Drinking Patterns, Lifestyle Factors & Chronic Conditions In Asian Americans
Principal Investigator
Disadvantage and Sociocultural Modifiers in Asian American Drinking
Principal Investigator
Alcohol Use among Asian American Adolescents & Young Adults: Do Subgroups Differ?
Principal Investigator
High-Intensity Drinking over the Life Course
Co-investigator
PUBLICATIONS
See All PublicationsWhen the going gets tough: Multimorbidity and heavy and binge drinking among adults
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2024
Are countries’ drink-driving policies associated with harms involving another driver’s impairment?
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2021
Alcohol consumption, cardiovascular related conditions, and ALDH2*2 ethnic group prevalence in Asian Americans
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2021
Racial/ethnic variations in clustered risk behaviors in the U.S
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020
The relationship between the U.S. state alcohol policy environment and individuals’ experience of secondhand effects: Alcohol harms due to others’ drinking
Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 2019
Medicaid expansion and healthcare access: lessons from Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences in California
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2017
Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Overweight in Asian American Adolescents
Preventive medicine reports, 2016
Asian American problem drinking trajectories during the transition to adulthood: ethnic drinking cultures and neighborhood contexts
American Journal of Public Health, 2015
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, 2014
Ethnic drinking cultures, gender, and socioeconomic status in Asian American and Latino drinking
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2014
Access to health care and heavy drinking in patients with diabetes and hypertension
Substance Use & Misuse, 2012
