Wendy Max, PhD

Professor of Health Economics
University of California, San Francisco
Institute for Health & Aging
3333 California Street
Suite 340
San Francisco, CA
USA 94118

Biographical Sketch: Wendy Max, Ph.D. is Professor of Health Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Health & Aging at the University of California, San Francisco. She has been on the faculty at UCSF since 1987. Her recent research has focused on modeling the economic impact of tobacco on healthcare expenditures. She has estimated national costs of smoking; costs to Medicare, Medicaid, and private payers; costs in California; and the impact on communities of color. She is currently developing models of the impact of secondhand exposure on healthcare expenditures in California and the US. Her other current research includes evaluating an integrated primary healthcare program in rural Malawi and looking at the economic impact of hurricane Katrina on the primary healthcare safety net in New Orleans.

Papers:
4162.0 Deaths from secondhand smoke exposure at home among California's different racial/ethnic groups: Economic implications 5026.0 Does spending on cigarettes crowd out other household expenditures in China? findings from the ITC China survey