Alice Guan, PhD, MPH
Assistant Researcher
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• PhD Epidemiology University of California, San Francisco 2024

Grants and Projects

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• A lifecourse approach to evaluating the effect of structural stigma on cancer risk factors among sexual minorities, NIH, 2021-2024

Publications (29)

Top publication keywords:
PovertyChild DevelopmentSmokersChild HealthFood AssistanceNon-Randomized Controlled Trials as TopicHealth Status DisparitiesHealth BehaviorProstatic NeoplasmsPhysiciansResidence CharacteristicsSocial Determinants of HealthHealthcare DisparitiesEmigrants and ImmigrantsTerminal Care

• Latino Enclaves and Healthcare Accessibility: An Ecologic Study Across Five States.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Guan A, Shariff-Marco S, Henry KA, Lin K, Meltzer D, Canchola AJ, Arizpe A, Rathod AB, Hughes AE, Kroenke CH, Gomez SL, Hiatt RA, Stroup AM, Pinheiro PS, Boscoe F, Zhu H, Pruitt SL
• Opioid overdose deaths are prominent in urban counties within the USA: an observational cross-sectional study.
  British journal of anaesthesia 2024 Patankar AV, Octaviano R, Gurachar N, Chen AW, Guan A, Hung GA, Kikuta N, Jamal A, Srinivasan M, Bacong AM, Huang RJ, Kim GS, Palaniappan LP, Gross ER
• Inequities in food access during the COVID19 pandemic: a multilevel, mixed methods pilot study.
  Research square 2024 Aepala MR, Guan A, Cruz T, Sowell J, Mattias B, Lin K, Hassberg AH, Shariff-Marco S, DeRouen MC, Akom A
• Acculturating to multiculturalism: a new dimension of dietary acculturation among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
  BMC public health 2024 Tan JY, Guan A, Albers AE, Canchola AJ, Allen L, Shariff-Marco S, Gomez SL
• A validation study for measuring Asian- and Hispanic-serving sociocultural institutions in neighborhoods using business listing data and potential implications for health.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2024 Morey BN, Garcia S, Lin K, Canchola AJ, Alexeeff SE, Kurtovich EM, Uong S, Aoki RF, Guan A, Torres JM, Shariff-Marco S, Yao S, Kushi LH, Gomez SL, Kroenke CH

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• Lessons Learned from Immigrant Health Cohorts: A Review of the Evidence and Implications for Policy and Practice in Addressing Health Inequities among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
  Annual review of public health 2024 Guan A, Talingdan AS, Tanjasiri SP, Kanaya AM, Gomez SL
• Patient and physician perspectives on treatments for low-risk prostate cancer: a qualitative study.
  BMC cancer 2023 Guan A, Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Chung BI, Shim JK, Allen L, Kuo MC, Lau K, Loya Z, Brooks JD, Cheng I, DeRouen MC, Frosch DL, Golden T, Leppert JT, Lichtensztajn DY, Lu Q, Oh D, Sieh W, Wadhwa M, …
• Asian American Women's Experiences of Discrimination and Health Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2023 Wang K, Guan A, Seto J, Oh DL, Lau K, Duffy C, Castillo E, McGuire V, Wadhwa M, Tepper CG, Wakelee HA, DeRouen MC, Shariff-Marco S, Cheng I, Gomez SL
• Dignified Resources and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Qualitative Study of Racially and Economically Marginalized Communities.
  Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2023 Guan A, Cruz T, Sowell J, Mathias B, Hassberg AH, Shariff-Marco S, Akom A, DeRouen MC
• Asian American Enclaves and Healthcare Accessibility: An Ecologic Study Across Five States.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2023 Guan A, Pruitt SL, Henry KA, Lin K, Meltzer D, Canchola AJ, Rathod AB, Hughes AE, Kroenke CH, Gomez SL, Hiatt RA, Stroup AM, Pinheiro PS, Boscoe FP, Zhu H, Shariff-Marco S
• Understanding the Predictors of Low Take-Up of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): A Nationwide Longitudinal Study.
  Maternal and child health journal 2023 Guan A, Batra A, Seligman H, Hamad R
• Predictors of WIC uptake among low-income pregnant individuals: a longitudinal nationwide analysis.
  The American journal of clinical nutrition 2023 Collin DF, Guan A, Hamad R
• Factors that influence treatment decisions: A qualitative study of racially and ethnically diverse patients with low- and very-low risk prostate cancer.
  Cancer medicine 2022 Guan A, Shim JK, Allen L, Kuo MC, Lau K, Loya Z, Brooks JD, Carroll PR, Cheng I, Chung BI, DeRouen MC, Frosch DL, Golden T, Leppert JT, Lichtensztajn DY, Lu Q, Oh DL, Sieh W, Wadhwa M, Gomez SL, …
• Effects of the revised WIC food package on women's and children's health: a quasi-experimental study.
  BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2022 Guan A, Batra A, Hamad R
• Engaging Asian American Communities During the COVID-19 Era Tainted With Anti-Asian Hate and Distrust.
  American journal of public health 2022 Cheng J, Tsoh JY, Guan A, Luu M, Nguyen IV, Tan R, Thao C, Yu E, Lor D, Pham M, Choi J, Kim M, Stewart SL, Burke NJ
• Commentary: Racism and structural violence: Interconnected threats to health equity.
  Frontiers in public health 2022 Abdiwahab E, Guan A, Hong C, Gomez SL
• An economic evaluation of cabazitaxel versus a second androgen receptor-targeted agent (ARTA) for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer previously treated with docetaxel and an ARTA: the United States payer perspective.
  BMC health services research 2022 Morgans AK, Hutson T, Guan AKD, Garcia D, Zhou A, Drea E, Vogelzang NJ
• Asian American/Pacific Islander and Hispanic Ethnic Enclaves, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Incidence in California: An Update.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2021 Sangaramoorthy M, Yang J, Guan A, DeRouen MC, Tana MM, Somsouk M, Thompson CA, Gibbons J, Ho C, Chu JN, Cheng I, Gomez SL, Shariff-Marco S
• An investigation of quantitative methods for assessing intersectionality in health research: A systematic review.
  SSM - population health 2021 Guan A, Thomas M, Vittinghoff E, Bowleg L, Mangurian C, Wesson P
• Individual- and neighborhood-level socioeconomic status and risk of aggressive breast cancer subtypes in a pooled cohort of women from Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
  Cancer 2021 Aoki RF, Uong SP, Gomez SL, Alexeeff SE, Caan BJ, Kushi LH, Torres JM, Guan A, Canchola AJ, Morey BN, Lin K, Kroenke CH
• Appropriate Use of the Asian American Demographic Category in Health Disparities Research.
  American journal of public health 2021 Guan A, Mukherjea A
• Neighborhood Ethnic Composition and Self-rated Health Among Chinese and Vietnamese American Immigrants.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2021 Guan A, Kim-Mozeleski JE, Vyas P, Stewart SL, Gildengorin G, Burke NJ, Ma K, Pham AT, Tan J, Lu Q, McPhee SJ, Tsoh JY
• The Revised WIC Food Package and Child Development: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
  Pediatrics 2021 Guan A, Hamad R, Batra A, Bush NR, Tylavsky FA, LeWinn KZ
• Disentangling individual and neighborhood differences in the intention to quit smoking in Asian American male smokers.
  Preventive medicine reports 2020 Vyas P, Tsoh JY, Gildengorin G, Stewart SL, Yu E, Guan A, Pham A, Burke NJ, McPhee SJ
• Unpacking the 'black box' of lay health worker processes in a US-based intervention.
  Health promotion international 2020 Burke NJ, Phung K, Yu F, Wong C, Le K, Nguyen I, Nguyen L, Guan A, Nguyen TT, Tsoh JY
• Unpacking the 'black box' of lay health worker processes in a US-based intervention.
  Health promotion international 2020 Burke NJ, Phung K, Yu F, Wong C, Le K, Nguyen I, Nguyen L, Guan A, Nguyen TT, Tsoh JY
• Breast Cancer in San Francisco: Disentangling Disparities at the Neighborhood Level.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2019 Guan A, Lichtensztajn D, Oh D, Jain J, Tao L, Hiatt RA, Gomez SL, Fejerman L, San Francisco Cancer Initiative Breast Cancer Task Force
• Serious quit attempts and cessation implications for Asian American male smokers.
  Addictive behaviors 2019 Guan A, Kim-Mozeleski JE, Tan JY, McPhee SJ, Burke NJ, Sun A, Cheng JW, Tsoh JY
• Unpacking the 'black box' of lay health worker processes in a US-based intervention.
  Health promotion international 2018 Burke NJ, Phung K, Yu F, Wong C, Le K, Nguyen I, Nguyen L, Guan A, Nguyen TT, Tsoh JY