Associate Specialist
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Division of Occupational Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of California , Irvine
5201 California Avenue, Suite 100
Irvine , CA 92612

Telephone (949) 824-8004
Fax (949) 824-2345

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Education

Academic Appointments

Non-Academic Appointments

Professional Activity

Contract, Grant and Research Awards

Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator

Neurobehavioral Effects among High School Students Exposed in Utero to Heptachlor Epoxide: A Health Outcome Study of the 1981-82 Heptachlor Milk Contamination on Oahu . (PI: Dean Baker, Co-Investigators: Haiou Yang , Francis Crinella, and Ulrike Luderer ) Hawaii Heptachlor Research & Education Foundation, 9/1998 to 12/2000

Latent Effects of Gestational Exposure to Heptachlor. (PI: Dean Baker, Co-investigator: Ulrike Luderer , Sastry Gollapudi, Haiou Yang ) U. S. Environmental Health Agency. 2001-2004

Researcher on Grant

Attitudes towards Genetic Testing for Colon Cancers among Health Professionals and First Degree Relatives. (PI: Karen Glanz, Coordinator, Haiou Yang ) National Institute on Human Genomes, 1994-1997

Environmental Epidemiological Study of Lead Exposure of Children in Tijuana , Mexico (PI: John Ericson, Analyst: Haiou Yang ) The US Environmental Health Agency, 1997-2000,

The Del Amo/Montrose Community Environmental Health Program, (PI: Dean Baker, Analyst: Haiou Yang ) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 1995-1998.

Publications

Book Chapters, peer reviewed

1. Hammel, G, Mason, C, Wachter, K, Wang, F, & Yang, H. Microsimulation as a tool in exploring demographic and socioeconomic inter-relationship, with an example from China. in Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries (in French). Tapinos, G., Blanchet, D., & Horlacher, D. E. eds. New York : United Nations Population Division. 1991.

2. Yang, H. Cultural fever: A cultural discourse in China ’s post-Mao era. in From Beijing to Port Moresby : The Politics of National Cultural Politics. Dominguez, V. & Wu, D. eds. Australia : Gorden and Breach Publishers. 207-247. 1998.

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

Technical Reports

1. Yamada, J, & Yang, H. Polio and post-polio in China . Study-Visit Report of International Experts and Information on Rehabilitation. Durham : International Experts and Information on Rehabilitation. 1994.

2. Yang, H & Galeal’i, K. Families and rehabilitation in American Samoa . Technical Report. Honolulu : Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research and Training Center . 1994.

3. Baker, D & Yang, H. The Del Amo/Montrose Community Environmental Health Program: Final Report. Atlanta : Report submitted to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 1999.

4. Baker, D & Yang, H. Neurobehavioral Effects among High School Students Exposed in Utero to Heptachlor Epoxide: A Health Outcome Study of the 1981-82 Heptachlor Milk Contamination on Oahu: Final Report, Honolulu: the Hawaii Heptachlor Research & Education Foundation. July, 2003.

Journal Articles, peer reviewed

1. Yang, H. Population and kinship dynamics of the elderly in China : A microsimulation study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 7 (2):135-150, 1992.

2. Yang, H & Chandler, D. Intergenerational relations: Grievances of the elderly in rural China . Journal of Comparative Family Studies , 23 (3):432-453, 1992.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

Other Journal Articles

1. Yang, H & Goebert, D. Aging with polio in the Pacific. The REHAB Journal 8 (2):2-5. Honolulu : Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research and Training Center , 1992.

2. Yang, H. Asian-Pacific Americans and rehabilitation: Issues of research. The REHAB Journal 9(1):2-4. Honolulu : Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research and Training Center , 1993.

3. Okamoto, G. & Yang, H. Aging with a disability. The Rehab Journal, 9 (2):1-3. Honolulu : Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research and Training Center , 1993.

4. Pak, S & Yang, H. Aging with Polio in Marshal Islands : a longitudinal Study. The REHAB Journal 9 (2):14-17. Honolulu : Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research and Training Center , 1993.

5. Yang, H, Braun, K, Onaka, A. & Horiuchi, B. Life expectancy in the State of Hawaii , 1990 and 1980. R & S Report, 63. Honolulu : Hawaii State Department of Health, 1996.

6. Braun, K, Yang, H, Onaka, A. & Horiuchi, B. Life and death in Hawaii : Ethnic variations in life expectancy and mortality, 1990-1980. Hawai`i Medical Journal, 55:278-283, 302,1996.

Yang, H. Emerging problems of supporting the elderly in rural China, paper presented at Workshop on Population Policy and Development at Population Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1988.

Yang, H. The future family support system for the rural elderly in China : the consequences of the One-Child policy and the latent effects of the rural economic reform, paper presented at the Asian Studies Association Meeting, Washington D.C, 1989.

“Cultural Fever” in China : A cultural discourse during the past few years, paper presented at the Conference on Cultural Construction and National Identity. Institute of Culture and Communication, East-West Center , Honolulu , Hawaii , 1990,

Yang, H. Changing patterns of support for the elderly in rural and urban China , paper presented at the XVII Pacific Science Congress, May 1991, Honolulu , Hawaii , 1991.

Yang, H, Wang, J, & Okamoto, G. Age, gender, and ethnic variations in disability among the elderly in Hawaii , paper presented at Hawaii Pacific Gerontology Society Eighth Biennial Conference. Honolulu , 1995.

Braun, K, Yang, H, Onaka, A, Horiuchi, B. Life Expectancy by Ethnicity. American Public Health Association, Indianapolis , 1997.

Psychosocial workplace stressors: STEP PROJECT of Southern California Centers for Occupational and Environmental Health, Co- presented by Peter L. Schnall, Haiou Yang , Maritza Jauregui , Paul A. Landsbergis, Dean B. Baker, Karen L. Belkić, Kanan Patel-Coleman , Prepared for the APA/NIOSH Conference, On Work Stress and Health: New Challenges in a changing workplace, Toronto, Canada, March 20-22, 2003

Work Environment and Cardiovascular Risks among Vietnamese Americans: A Community Approach, Grand Round at UCI Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, May 27, 2003 .

Risk Communication, Management, and Assessment of Infectious Diseases: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, Keio University , Japan , August, 27, 2003 .