Won Kim Cook

Alcohol Research Group

Won Kim Cook, PhD
Scientist
wcook@arg.org
EDUCATION
Won received her PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University and her MPH from the University of California, Berkeley.
RESEARCH FOCUS
Risk relationship between alcohol consumption and chronic health outcomes; drinking and other health behaviors among people with chronic conditions; racial/ethnic differences in clustered health risk behaviors; effects of alcohol policies on drinking and alcohol-related harms; cultural, socioeconomic, and genetic predictors of drinking and health among Asian Americans.

Areas of Expertise

FEATURED PROJECTS

Drinking Patterns, Lifestyle Factors & Chronic Conditions In Asian Americans

Principal Investigator

Disadvantage and Sociocultural Modifiers in Asian American Drinking

Principal Investigator

Alcohol's Harms to Others among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects

Scientist

A Multi-Lingual Alcohol Measure Catalog/ Administration Tool - Phase II

Scientist

Social, Developmental and Genetic Epidemiology of Alcohol Use Disorders

Scientist

Alcohol Use among Asian American Adolescents & Young Adults: Do Subgroups Differ?

Principal Investigator

Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: National Alcohol Research Center

Scientist

Sex, Alcohol, and Culture: Secondary Data Analysis

Scientist

Cross-national Analysis of Alcohol & Injury

Scientist

Health Disparities in Alcohol Use and Other Risk Behaviors after the Onset of Cancers and Cardiovascular Disease-Related Conditions

Co-director

Alcohol and Tobacco Use and Desistance Among Asian Americans: A Lifecourse Examination of Critical Periods and Subgroup Disparities

Co-investigator

Disaggregating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to identify mechanisms of adolescent suicide risk

Co-investigator

High-Intensity Drinking over the Life Course

Co-investigator

IN THE NEWS

When Health and Alcohol Mix: Insights on High-Risk Drinking

Researchers: Won Kim Cook, PhD, Christina Tam, PhD, Camillia Lui, PhD, Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD, William C. Kerr, PhD Excessive alcohol consumption remains a critical public health issue, particularly among…Learn more

Alcohol Consumption Trends Across Different Populations

Study suggests beverage-specific policies to reduce alcohol risks Learn more

PUBLICATIONS

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Drinking contexts, coping motive, simultaneous cannabis use, and high-intensity drinking among adults in the United States

Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2024

When the going gets tough: Multimorbidity and heavy and binge drinking among adults

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2024

Alcoholic beverage types consumed by population subgroups in the United States: Implications for alcohol policy to address health disparities

Drug and Alcohol Review, 2024

Risky drinking and other drug use in adults with chronic conditions in the United States: Differential associations by race/ethnicity

Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2023

Associations of clustered health risk behaviors with diabetes and hypertension in White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American adults

BMC Public Health, 2022

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

State alcohol policies, binge drinking prevalence, socioeconomic environments and alcohol’s harms to others: a mediation analysis

Alcohol and Alcohol, 2020

Racial/ethnic variations in clustered risk behaviors in the U.S

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 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, 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

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, 2019

Ethnic-group socioeconomic status as an indicator of community-level disadvantage: a study of overweight/obesity in Asian American adolescents

Social Science & Medicine, 2017

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

Are Alcohol Policies Associated with Alcohol Consumption in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Addiction, 2014

Access to health care and heavy drinking in patients with diabetes and hypertension

Substance Use & Misuse, 2012