Yingning Wang, PhD
Associate Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
School of Nursing

As a health economist, Dr. Wang brings extensive experience in studying the economic impacts of tobacco use, assessing the costs of tobacco use, and evaluating the effects of tobacco control policies on priority populations such as youth and young adults, individuals with low socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural communities.

Her research interests include emerging tobacco products, cannabis, and the application of machine learning to analyze social media data. Dr. Wang has extensive expertise in developing rigorous economic models and working with large population survey data. Her research has been published in leading public health and tobacco control journals.

• Smoking-Attributable Health Care Expenditures for US Adults With Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease.
  JAMA network open 2024 Gu D, Sung HY, Calfee CS, Wang Y, Yao T, Max W
• Changes in e-cigarette use and subsequent cigarette smoking cessation in the USA: evidence from a prospective PATH study, 2013-2018.
  Tobacco control 2024 Wang Y, Sung HY, Max WB
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
  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
• 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
• Residential Mobility, Neighborhood Effects, and Educational Attainment of Blacks and Whites
  Econometric Review 2014 Yan Dong, Li Gan, Yingning Wang
• Comments on Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Unfunded Mandates Reform Act Analysis
  Docket No. FDA-2014-N-0189 Wendy Max, Yingning Wang