Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Tuo-Yen Tseng, PhD '22, MA, conducts research to inform policies and interventions that drive social and behavior change, promoting health equity in diverse populations and settings.
Research Interests
substance use; drug use; tobacco control; HIV/AIDS; health behavior change; health policy; treatment guideline; quality of care; health disparities
Experiences & Accomplishments
Tuo-Yen Tseng (she/her) is an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and MA in Psychology from New York University.
Dr. Tseng has experience in research and interventions facilitating health behavior change, increasing treatment access and care quality, improving health equity, as well as evaluating and promoting health policy and guideline implementation, both in domestic and international settings. Her research utilizes qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the impacts of psychosocial and environmental factors on health behaviors and outcomes.
Select Publications
Tseng, T. Y., Mitchell, M. M., Chander, G., Latkin, C., Kennedy, C., & Knowlton, A. R. (2023). Patient-centered Engagement as a Mediator in the Associations of Healthcare Discrimination, Pain Care Denial, and Later Substance Use Among a Sample of Predominately African Americans Living with HIV. AIDS and Behavior, 1-10.
Tseng, T. Y., Welding, K., Saenz-de-Miera, B., Grilo, G., & Cohen, J. E. (2023). The Use of Packaging Descriptors in a Rapidly Growing Market for Capsule Cigarettes: Evidence From Mexico. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, ntad208.
Latkin, C. A., Tseng, T. Y., Davey-Rothwell, M., Kennedy, R. D., Moran, M. B., Czaplicki, L., Edwards, C., Falade-Nwulia, O., Chander, G., & Knowlton, A. R. (2017). The relationship between neighborhood disorder, social networks, and indoor cigarette smoking among impoverished inner-city residents. Journal of Urban Health, 94(4), 534-541.
Tseng, T. Y., Krebs, P., Schoenthaler, A., Wong, S., Sherman, S., Gonzalez, M., Urbina, A., Cleland, C. M., & Shelley, D. (2017). Combining text messaging and telephone counseling to increase varenicline adherence and smoking abstinence among cigarette smokers living with HIV: a randomized controlled study. AIDS and Behavior, 21(7), 1964–1974.
Tseng, T. Y., Ostroff, J. S., Campo, A., Gerard, M., Kirchner, T., Rotrosen, J., & Shelley, D. (2016). A randomized trial comparing the effect of nicotine versus placebo electronic cigarettes on smoking reduction among young adult smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 18(10), 1937-1943.