Teh-wei Hu, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
PHONE: (510) 643-6298
FAX: (510) 643-6981
LOCATION: 241 University Hall
E-MAIL: thu@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
- Economics of tobacco control
- Health care reform in Asia (China, Taiwan and Hong Kong)
- Costs and outcomes of mental health capitation experiments
Publications
Hu TW (ed.). Tobacco Control Policy Analysis in China: Economics and Health, World Scientific Publishing Company: Singapore, Jan 2008.
Hu TW, He Y, Zhang M, Chen N. “Economic costs of depression in China.” Soc Psychitar Epidemiol Jan 2007.
Hu TW, Mao Z, Ong M, et al. “China at the Crossroads: The Economics of Tobacco and Health,” Tobacco Control, 2006; 15; 37-41.
Sung HY, Wang L, Jin S, Hu TW, Jiang Y. “Economic burden of smoking in China, 2000,” Tobacco Control, 2006; 15; 5-11.
Hu TW, Mao Z, Jiang H, Tao M, Yurekli A. "The Role of Government in Tobacco Leaf Production in China: National and Local Interventions," International Journal of Public Policy, April 2006.
Hu TW. "An International Review of the National Cost Estimates of Mental Illness, 1990-2003," J Ment Health Policy Econ 2006; 9; 3-13.
Hu T, "Financing and organization of China's health care", Bulletin of the World Health Organization, July 2004
Keeler T, Hu TW, Ong M, Sung HY, "The US National Tobacco Settlement: the effects of advertising and price changes on cigarette consumption", Applied Economics, 1-7, 2003
Hu, T, "Financing Global Mental Health Services and the Role of WHO", The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 145-147, 2003
Hu T, Mao Z, "Effects of Cigarette Tax on Cigarette Consumption and the Chinese Economy", Tobacco Control, June 2002
Bloom, J. Hu TW, Wallace N., Cuffel, B, "Mental Health Care Costs and Access Under Alternative Capitalism System in Colorado", Health Services Research, April 2002
Hu T, Hsieh, C, The Economics of Health Care Reform in Asian Pacific Countries, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc. 2002
Other Interests
- Member, Executive Board, International Health Economics Association (2004-2005)
- Associate Dean of Academic Affairs (2000-2002)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics (1997- )
Profile updated: December 11, 2007