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  • Won Kim Cook, PhD

  • Scientist

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    wcook@arg.org
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    510-898-5857
  • EXTERNAL BIO LINK: My NCBI Link

  • Expertise

    Risk relationship between harmful drinking patterns and chronic health conditions; cultural and socioeconomic predictors of Asian-American drinking and related health outcomes; health care access for immigrants; racial 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
  • Drinking Patterns, Lifestyle Factors & Chronic Conditions In Asian Americans (Principal Investigator)
  • Alcohol's Harms to Others: Multinational Cultural Contexts and Policy Implications (Scientist)
  • Alcohol and Tobacco Use and Desistance Among Asian Americans (Co-Investigator)
Completed Projects
  • 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)
  • Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: Secondary Data Analysis (Scientist)
  • Cross-national Analysis of Alcohol & Injury
Selected Publications
  • Cook W.K., Kerr W.C., Karriker-Jaffe K.J., Greenfield T.K., Li L, Lui C. (2020). Racial/Ethnic Variations in Clustered Risk Behaviors in the U.S.. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 58 (1) 21-29 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 Alcoholism, 1-8 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., 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 WK, 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 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 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., & 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, 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., 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. (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
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