Alcohol Research Group

  • Won Kim Cook, PhD

  • Scientist

  • Email

    wcook@arg.org

  • Phone

  • EXTERNAL BIO LINK: My NCBI Link

  • Expertise

    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.
Current Projects
Completed Projects
Selected Publications
  • Cook, W. K., Lui, C. K., Greenfield, T. K., Subbaraman, M., Li, L., & Kerr, W. C. (2024). Drinking contexts, coping motive, simultaneous cannabis use, and high-intensity drinking among adults in the United States. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 59 (4) agae038 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., Li, L., Martinez, P., & Kerr, W. C.  (2024). When the going gets tough: Multimorbidity and heavy and binge drinking among adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 67 (3) 407-416 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., Kerr, W. C., Zhu, Y., Bright, S., Buckley, C., Kilian, C., Lasserre, A. M., Llamosas-Falcón, L., Mulia, N., Rehm, J., & Probst, C. (2024). Alcoholic beverage types consumed by population subgroups in the United States: Implications for alcohol policy to address health disparities. Drug and Alcohol Review, 43 (4) 946-955 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., Kerr, W. C., Tam, C. C., & Li, L. (2023). Risky drinking and other drug use in adults with chronic conditions in the United States: Differential associations by race/ethnicity. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 58 (5) 523-531 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., Li, L., Tam, C. C., Mulia, N., & Kerr, W. C. (2022). Associations of clustered health risk behaviors with diabetes and hypertension in White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American adults. BMC Public Health, 22 (773) 773 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T.K., Cook, W.K., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Li, L., Room, R. (2021). Are countries’ drink-driving policies associated with harms involving another driver’s impairment?. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45 (2) 429-435 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., Tam, C. C., Luczak, S. E., Kerr, W. C., Mulia, N., Lui, C., & Li, L. (2021). Alcohol consumption, cardiovascular related conditions, and ALDH2*2 ethnic group prevalence in Asian Americans. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45 (2) 418-428 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W.K., Li, L., Greenfield, T.K., Patterson, D., Naimi, T., Xuan, Z., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., (2020). State alcohol policies, binge drinking prevalence, socioeconomic environments and alcohol’s harms to others: a mediation analysis. Alcohol and Alcohol , 73 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., Kerr, W. C., Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., Li, L., Lui, C. K., & Greenfield, T. K. (2020). Racial/ethnic variations in clustered risk behaviors in the U.S. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 58 (1) e21-e29 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., Mulia, N., & Li, L. (2020). Subjective social status and financial hardship: Associations of alternative indicators of socioeconomic status with problem drinking in Asian Americans and Latinos. Substance Use & Misuse, 55 (8) 1246-1256 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T. K., Cook, W. K., Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., Patterson, D., Kerr, W. C., Xuan, Z., & Naimi, T. S. (2019). 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, 43 (6) 1234-1243 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., & Tseng, W. (2019). Associations of Asian ethnicity and parental education with overweight in Asian American children and adolescents: An analysis of 2011-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 23 (4) 504-511 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 W.K., John I., Chung C., Tseng W., Lee J.P. (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 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., 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., 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, 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. & 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

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