Dr Heewon Kang
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia and Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Researcher biography
Dr Heewon Kang is a Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland, and a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University. Her research focuses on developing surveillance systems for tobacco control and endgame strategies and evaluating the potential impacts of new policies and products on ending the tobacco epidemic.
Institutional webpage: https://ihe.snu.ac.kr/65
Journal Articles
Kang, Heewon, Steadman, Kathryn J., Hoek, Janet, Hall, Wayne D. and Gartner, Coral E. (2024). Restricting supply of tobacco products to pharmacies: a scoping review. Tobacco Control, 1-8. doi: 10.1136/tc-2023-058486
Puljević, Cheneal, Meciar, Isabel, Holland, Alice, Stjepanović, Daniel, Snoswell, Centaine L, Thomas, Emma E, Morphett, Kylie, Kang, Heewon, Chan, Gary, Grobler, Etienne and Gartner, Coral E (2024). Systematic review and meta-analysis of text messaging interventions to support tobacco cessation. Tobacco Control tc-2023-058323, tc-2023. doi: 10.1136/tc-2023-058323
Kang, Heewon, Yoon, Wonjeong, Seo, Hong Gwan, Lee, Sungkyu, Lim, Sujin, Kim, Gil-yong, Kim, Su Young, Xu, Steve S, Yan, Mi, Quah, Anne C K, Chung-Hall, Janet, Craig, Lorraine V, Gartner, Coral E, Fong, Geoffrey T and Cho, Sung-il (2024). Public support for tobacco endgame policies in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 International Tobacco Control Korea Survey. Tobacco Control tc-2023-058454, tc-2023. doi: 10.1136/tc-2023-058454
Kim, Hana, Kang, Heewon and Cho, Sung-Il (2024). Decrease in household secondhand smoking among Korean adolescents associated with smoke-free policies: grade-period-cohort and interrupted time series analyses. Epidemiology and health, 46 e2024009, e2024009. doi: 10.4178/epih.e2024009
Kim +, Hana, Park +, Susan, Kang, Heewon, Kang, Naeun, Levy, David T. and Cho, Sung-il (2023). Corrigendum: Modeling the future of tobacco control: Using
SimSmoke to explore the feasibility of the tobacco endgame
in Korea. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 21 (December) ARTN 160, 1-1. doi: 10.18332/tid/176286
Kim, Hana, Park, Susan, Kang, Heewon, Kang, Naeun, Levy, David T. and Cho, Sung-il (2023). Modeling the future of tobacco control: Using SimSmoke to
explore the feasibility of the tobacco endgame in Korea. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 21 (November) ARTN 147, 1-11. doi: 10.18332/tid/174127
Kang, Heewon, Cheon, Eunsil, Ha, Jaeyoung and Cho, Sung-il (2023). Use of geographically weighted regression models to inform retail endgame strategies in South Korea: application to cigarette and ENDS prevalence. Tobacco Control. doi: 10.1136/tc-2023-058117
Nam, Hee-kyoung, Kim, Hana, Chun, Hae-ryoung and Kang, Heewon (2023). Association between tobacco industry advertising expenses and tobacco advertising exposure among Korean adolescents. BMJ Open, 13 (10) e073078, 1-7. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073078
Kang, Heewon and Cho, Sung-il (2023). Epidemiological model for conventional tobacco control measures and tobacco endgame policies. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 56 (5), 481-484. doi: 10.3961/jpmph.23.239
Kim, Hana, Kang, Heewon, Choi, Jinyoung and Cho, Sung-il (2023). Trends in adolescent secondhand smoke exposure at home over 15 years in Korea: Inequality by parental education level. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 21 (June), 1-12. doi: 10.18332/tid/166132
Kang, Heewon, Cheon, Eunsil, Kim, Hyun Kyung, Park, Jung Mi, Hwang, Jieun, Kim, Jinyoung, Lee, Sungkyu, Han, Yuri, Lim, Min Kyung, Park, Susan and Cho, Sung-il (2023). Vision for tobacco endgame in Korea: suggestions for countries with endgame aspirations. Tobacco Control, tc-2022. doi: 10.1136/tc-2022-057691
Kang, Heewon, Tak, Sangwoo and Kang, Su Jin (2023). Required elements for an integrated biosurveillance platform: a capacity and needs assessment of the central government in the Republic of Korea. Health Security, 21 (2), 95-104. doi: 10.1089/hs.2022.0104
Kim, Hana, Nam, Hee-kyoung and Kang, Heewon (2023). Tobacco consumption, sales, and output as monitoring indicators in the era of the tobacco endgame. Epidemiology and Health, 45 e2023030, e2023030-8. doi: 10.4178/epih.e2023030
Lee, Da-Eun, Kang, Heewon and Cho, Sung-Il (2022). The association between tobacco or nicotine product use behaviors and non-compliance with mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in Korea. Epidemiology and Health, 44 e2022087. doi: 10.4178/epih.e2022087
Jo, Suyoung, Nam, Hee-kyoung, Kang, Heewon and Cho, Sung-il (2022). Associations of symptom combinations with in-hospital mortality of coronavirus disease-2019 patients using South Korean National data. PLoS One, 17 (8) e0273654, 1-13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273654
Jeon, Seonghee, Kang, Heewon, Cho, Inhyung and Cho, Sung-il (2022). The alcohol flushing response is associated with the risk of depression. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 12569. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-16276-2
Kang, Heewon, Min, Kyung-Duk, Jeon, Seonghee, Lee, Ju-Yeun and Cho, Sung-il (2022). A measure to estimate the risk of imported COVID-19 cases and its application for evaluating travel-related control measures. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 9497, 9497. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-13775-0
Kim, Dong Ha, Kang, Heewon and Yoo, Seunghyun (2022). Environment-Stratified Age-Period-Cohort Effects on the Prevalence of Walking Among Older Adults. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 30 (1), 18-24. doi: 10.1123/japa.2020-0448
Kang, Heewon and Cho, Sung-il (2020). Longitudinal transitions of cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems among adolescents: construction of a retrospective cohort using recall data from a cross-sectional sample. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 18 (November) 92, 1-10. doi: 10.18332/tid/128488
Kang, Heewon and Cho, Sung-il (2020). Individual and joint association of adulthood experiences
and parental or teacher smoking with adolescent cigarette
smoking. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 18 (October) 127519, 1-11. doi: 10.18332/tid/127519
Kang, SuJin, Moon, Jihyun, Kang, Heewon, Nam, Heekyoung, Tak, Sangwoo and Cho, Sung-Il (2020). The evolving policy debate on border closure in Korea. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 53 (5), 302-306. doi: 10.3961/jpmph.20.213
Min, Kyung-Duk, Kang, Heewon, Lee, Ju-Yeun, Jeon, Seonghee and Cho, Sung-il (2020). Estimating the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 control in Korea. Journal of Korean Medical Science, 35 (35) e321, 1-13. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e321
Kang, Heewon and Cho, Sung-il (2019). Heated tobacco product use among Korean adolescents. Tobacco Control, 29 (4), 466-468. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-054949
Kang, Heewon and Cho, Sung-il (2018). Cohort effects of tobacco control policy: evidence to support a tobacco-free norm through smoke-free policy. Tobacco Control, 29 (1), 96-102. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054536
Conference Paper
Puljevic, Cheneal, Meciar, Isabel, Holland, Alice, Stjepanovic, Daniel, Snoswell, Centaine L., Thomas, Emma, Morphett, Kylie, Kang, Heewon, Chan, Gary, Grobler, Etienne and Gartner, Coral (2024). A systematic review and meta-analysis of text messaging interventions to support tobacco cessation. Society For Research On Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) Conference 2024, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 20-23 March 2024. Madison, WI United States: Society For Research On Nicotine & Tobacco.