Haiou Yang, PhD
Associate Specialist
   

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University of California, Irvine
Center for Occupational & Environmental Health
5201 California Ave, Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92617

949-824-8004
949-824-2345
hyang@uci.edu

Education & Training:

B.A. in Economics, Hebei University
M.A. in Sociology, University of Hawaii
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Hawaii

Research Interests: Environmental epidemiology with survey research and focus group methods, beliefs and attitudes toward environmental health, community health, workers' health, environmental justice, and health indicators of Asian American, Pacific Islanders, and other ethnic groups.

Recent Publications:

Yang H, Schnall PL, Jauregui M, Su TC, Baker DB, Work Hours and Self-Reported Hypertension among Working People in California. Hypertension, 2006; 48(4):744-50.

Baker D, Luderer U, Yang H, Gollapudi S, Kesner J. "The Sixteenth Conference Of The International Society For Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) - Latent effects of gestational exposure to heptachlor (in Abstract only)." Epidemiology 2004. 5(4): s119.

Baker D, Yang H, Crinella F. "Twenty first international neurotoxicology conference - Neurobehavioral study of 18 years olds exposed to heptachlor epoxide during gestation (in abstract only)." Neurotoxicology 2004. 25(4): 700-701.

Baker D & Yang H. Neurobehavioral Effects among High School Students Exposed in Utero to Heptachlor Epoxide: A Health Outcome Study of the 1981-1982 Heptachlor Milk Contamination on Oahu: Final Report, Honolulu: the Hawaii Heptachlor Research & Education Foundation. July 2003.

Fedoruk, MJ, Uhlman, S, Baker, DB, & Yang, H. Analysis of microbial contamination of a ventilation system detected by measurement of microbial volatile organic compounds. In Albany: Johanning, E (eds): Bioaerosols, Fungi and Mycotoxins: Health Effects, Assessment, Prevention and Control,. Boyd Printing Company, Inc., Albany, 386-395. 1999.

Braun, K, Yang, H, Onaka, A & Horiuchi, B. Asian and Pacific Islander mortality differences in Hawaii. Social Biology, 44 (3-4):213-225, 1997

Glanz, K & Yang, H. Communicating about risk of infectious diseases. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 275 (3):253-256, 1996.

Yang, H, Leung, P, Wang, J, & Shim, N. Asian Americans: The need for ethnic-specific disability and rehabilitation data. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 7 (1):33-54, 1996.

Braun, K, Look, M, Yang, H, Onaka, A, & Horiuchi, B. Native Hawaiian mortality, 1980-1990. American Journal of Public Health. 89 (6):888-9, 1996.

Braun, K, Yang, H, Look, M, Onaka, A, & Horiuchi, B. Age-specific mortality rates among Native Hawaiians: A comparison of full, part, and non-Hawaiians. Asian American and Pacific Islander Journal of Health. 4:352-362, 1996.