Tingting Yao, PhD
Associate Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
School of Nursing

Dr. Yao's research focuses on the economic impact of tobacco products and marijuana. Her current studies include estimating the impact of price on the demand for cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and marijuana. Her previous research includes estimating the impact of price on the demand for cigarettes and the economic costs of secondhand smoke exposure.

Awards

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• Cornelius Hopper Diversity Award Supplement (CHDAS), Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), 2012-2014

Education & Training

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• Postdoc Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education University of California, San Francisco 2012
• Ph.D. Huaxi School of Public Health/ Health Economics Sichuan University, China 2009
• B.A Huaxi School of Public Health/ Public Health Sichuan University, China 2003

Interests

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• marijuana
• China
• cigarettes
• health economics
• tobacco control
• electronic cigarettes
• healthcare utilization
• cigarette demand
• price elasticity
• healthcare costs
• National-level secondary data
• secondhand smoke exposure

Grants and Projects

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• The impact of price on the demand for marijuana and cigarettes, Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), 2019-2024
• The impact of price on the demand for electronic cigarettes, Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), 2017-2019
• Own-price and cross-price elasticity of demand for tobacco products in the U.S., UCSF Resource Allocation Program, 2017

Publications (42)

Top publication keywords:
Tobacco Smoke PollutionTobacco ProductsHealth Impact AssessmentManufacturing IndustryPatient Acceptance of Health CareSmokersEnvironmental ExposureHealth ExpendituresHousingCommerceElectronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsSmokingHealth Care CostsChinaSmoke-Free Policy

• Association between tobacco product use and respiratory health and asthma-related interference with activities among U.S. Adolescents.
  Preventive medicine reports 2024 Yao T, Lea Watkins S, Sung HY, Wang Y, Gu D, Chen Lyu J, Lightwood J, Max W
• The association of current exclusive e-cigarette use and dual use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes with psychological distress among U.S. adults.
  Preventive medicine reports 2023 Wang Y, Sung HY, Lea Watkins S, Lightwood J, Yao T, Max W
• Cigarette Gifting Among Nonsmokers in China: Findings From the International Tobacco Control China Survey.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2023 Lyu JC, Sung HY, Yao T, Jiang N, Quah ACK, Meng G, Jiang Y, Fong GT, Max W
• Local Brand Smoking Among Adult Smokers: Findings from the Wave 5 International Tobacco Control China Survey - China, 2015.
  China CDC weekly 2022 Hao P, Xu SS, Sung H, Yao T, Jiang Y, Quah ACK, Fong GT
• Healthcare utilisation and expenditures attributable to current e-cigarette use among US adults.
  Tobacco control 2022 Wang Y, Sung HY, Lightwood J, Yao T, Max WB

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• Receiving and giving electronic cigarettes as gifts in China: Findings from International Tobacco Control China Survey.
  Preventive medicine reports 2022 Lyu JC, Sung HY, Yao T, Quah ACK, Jiang Y, Fong GT, Max W
• Association between e-cigarette use and food insecurity among low-income adults.
  Tobacco control 2022 Gu D, Max WB, Yao T, Wang Y, Keeler C, Sung HY
• Electronic cigarette knowledge, attitudes and use among students at a university in Hangzhou, China.
  Tobacco induced diseases 2022 Fang J, Ren J, Ren L, Max W, Yao T, Zhao F
• The Association of Cannabis Use and Cigarette Smoking with Psychological Distress Among Adults in California.
  Substance use & misuse 2021 Wang N, Yao T, Sung HY, Max W
• The Association of California's Proposition 56 Tobacco Tax Increase With Smoking Behavior Across Racial and Ethnic Groups and by Income.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2021 Keeler C, Wang Y, Max W, Yao T, Gu D, Sung HY
• Differential price-responsiveness of smoking behaviors among non-Hispanic African Americans and non-Hispanic whites in the United States.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2021 Wang Y, Max W, Yao T, Keeler C, Sung HY
• The impact of smoking on annual healthcare cost: an econometric model analysis in China, 2015.
  BMC health services research 2021 Huang S, Wei H, Yao T, Mao Z, Sun Q, Yang L
• Health Care Utilization of Menthol and Non-menthol Cigarette Smokers.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2021 Wang Y, Watkins SL, Sung HY, Yao T, Lightwood J, Max W
• Low awareness of and willingness to use PrEP in the Chinese YMSM: An alert in YMSM HIV prevention.
  HIV medicine 2020 Cui Z, Huang H, Zhang T, Yu Z, Zhang H, Yao T, Song D, Chen Y, Peixoto E, Wang C, Wang X, Yang J, Liu Y, Li C, Ma J
• The impact of e-cigarette and cigarette prices on e-cigarette and cigarette sales in California.
  Preventive medicine reports 2020 Yao T, Sung HY, Huang J, Chu L, St Helen G, Max W
• Impact of smoking on the income level of Chinese urban residents: a two-wave follow-up of the China Family Panel Study.
  BMJ open 2020 Wei H, Zhong Z, Yang L, Yao T, Huang S, Mao Z
• Catastrophic health expenditure: A comparative analysis of smoking and non-smoking households in China.
  PloS one 2020 Zhong Z, Wei H, Yang L, Yao T, Mao Z, Sun Q
• Effects of Cigarette Prices on Intention to Quit, Quit Attempts, and Successful Cessation Among African American Smokers.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2020 Keeler C, Max W, Yerger VB, Yao T, Wang Y, Ong MK, Sung HY
• Smoking Behavior in Low- and High-Income Adults Immediately Following California Proposition 56 Tobacco Tax Increase.
  American journal of public health 2020 Keeler C, Max W, Yao T, Wang Y, Zhang X, Sung HY
• Healthcare Costs of Secondhand Smoke Exposure at Home for U.S. Children.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2018 Yao T, Sung HY, Wang Y, Lightwood J, Max W
• Modelling the impact of a new tobacco product: review of Philip Morris International's Population Health Impact Model as applied to the IQOS heated tobacco product.
  Tobacco control 2018 Max WB, Sung HY, Lightwood J, Wang Y, Yao T
• Health Care Utilization and Expenditures Attributable to Smokeless Tobacco Use Among US Adults.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2018 Wang Y, Sung HY, Lightwood J, Chaffee BW, Yao T, Max W
• Polytobacco Use and Nicotine Dependence Symptoms Among US Adults, 2012-2014.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2018 Sung HY, Wang Y, Yao T, Lightwood J, Max W
• Infrequent and Frequent Nondaily Smokers and Daily Smokers: Their Characteristics and Other Tobacco Use Patterns.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2018 Wang Y, Sung HY, Yao T, Lightwood J, Max W
• Health Care Utilization and Expenditures Attributable to Cigar Smoking Among US Adults, 2000-2015.
  Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2018 Wang Y, Sung HY, Yao T, Lightwood J, Max W
• Healthcare costs attributable to secondhand smoke exposure at home for U.S. adults.
  Tobacco Induced Diseases 2018 Tingting Yao, Hai-Yen Sung, Yingning Wang, James Lightwood, Wendy Max
• Healthcare costs attributable to secondhand smoke exposure at home for U.S. adults.
  Preventive medicine 2017 Yao T, Sung HY, Wang Y, Lightwood J, Max W
• Relationship between spending on electronic cigarettes, 30-day use, and disease symptoms among current adult cigarette smokers in the U.S.
  PloS one 2017 Yao T, Max W, Sung HY, Glantz SA, Goldberg RL, Wang JB, Wang Y, Lightwood J, Cataldo J
• The Association of Menthol Cigarette Use With Quit Attempts, Successful Cessation, and Intention to Quit Across Racial/Ethnic Groups in the United States.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2017 Keeler C, Max W, Yerger V, Yao T, Ong MK, Sung HY
• Responsiveness to cigarette prices by different racial/ethnic groups of US adults.
  Tobacco control 2017 Yao T, Ong MK, Max W, Keeler C, Wang Y, Yerger VB, Sung HY
• Factors associated with short-term transitions of non-daily smokers: socio-demographic characteristics and other tobacco product use.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2017 Wang Y, Sung HY, Yao T, Lightwood J, Max W
• Sociodemographic Differences Among U.S. Children and Adults Exposed to Secondhand Smoke at Home: National Health Interview Surveys 2000 and 2010.
  Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2016 Yao T, Sung HY, Wang Y, Lightwood J, Max W
• Enhancing the Performance of Amorphous-Silicon Photoanodes for Photoelectrocatalytic Water Oxidation.
  ChemSusChem 2015 Qin W, Wang N, Yao T, Wang S, Wang H, Cao Y, Liu SF, Li C
• Polytobacco Use of Cigarettes, Cigars, Chewing Tobacco, and Snuff Among US Adults.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2015 Sung HY, Wang Y, Yao T, Lightwood J, Max W
• A content analysis of electronic cigarette manufacturer websites in China.
  Tobacco control 2014 Yao T, Jiang N, Grana R, Ling PM, Glantz SA
• The healthcare costs of secondhand smoke exposure in rural China.
  Tobacco control 2014 Yao T, Sung HY, Mao Z, Hu TW, Max W
• Determinants of smoking-induced deprivation in China.
  Tobacco control 2014 Yao T, Huang J, Sung HY, Ong MK, Mao Z, Jiang Y, Fong GT, Max W
• Who purchases cigarettes from cheaper sources in China? Findings from the ITC China Survey.
  Tobacco control 2013 Yao T, Huang J, Sung HY, Ong MK, Mao Z, Jiang Y, Fong GT, Max W
• Secondhand smoke exposure at home in rural China.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2012 Yao T, Sung HY, Mao Z, Hu TW, Max W
• Potential unintended consequences of smoke-free policies in public places on pregnant women in China.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2009 Yao T, Lee AH, Mao Z
• Smoking knowledge, attitudes, behavior, and associated factors among Chinese male surgeons.
  World journal of surgery 2009 Yao T, Ong M, Lee A, Jiang Y, Mao Z
• [Interventions on the exposure of non-smoking pregnant women to passive smoking].
  Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition 2008 Yao TT, Chen XY, Hu DW, Mao ZZ