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  1. Trouble with promoting lung cancer screening in never-smokers

    Article • The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  2. Should We Screen Never-Smoking Asian Women for Lung Cancer Using Low-Dose Computed Tomography?—Reply

    Article • JAMA Internal Medicine, July 2022, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Wayne Gao

  3. Association of Computed Tomographic Screening Promotion With Lung Cancer Overdiagnosis Among Asian Women

    Article • JAMA Internal Medicine, March 2022, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Wayne Gao

  4. Converting health risks into loss of life years - a paradigm shift in clinical risk communication

    Article • Aging, September 2021, Impact Journals, LLC

    Dr Wayne Gao

  5. Examining Population Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: All-Cause, Pneumonia and Influenza, and Road Traffic Deaths in Taiwan

    Article • Annals of Internal Medicine, June 2021, American College of Physicians

    Dr Wayne Gao

  6. Smoking and nasopharyngeal cancer: individual data meta-analysis of six prospective studies on 334 935 men

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, March 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Wayne Gao

  7. Geo-temporal distribution of 1,688 Chinese healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 in severe conditions—A secondary data analysis

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2020, PLOS

    Dr Wayne Gao

  8. Vaping popularity did not increase smoking rate

    Article • Tobacco Control, March 2020, BMJ

    Dr Wayne Gao, Dr. David T Levy

  9. Geo-temporal distribution of 1,688 Chinese healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 in severe conditions – a secondary data analysis

    Article • March 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Wayne Gao

  10. Air pollution while a public health concern is still a smaller burden than smoking

    Article • Tobacco Control, October 2019, BMJ

    Dr Wayne Gao

  11. Exploiting a low tax system: non-tax-induced cigarette price increases in Taiwan 2011–2016

    Article • Tobacco Control, June 2019, BMJ

    Dr Wayne Gao

  12. Electronic Cigarette Use and Smoking Initiation in Taiwan: Evidence from the First Prospective Study in Asia

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Wayne Gao

  13. Tobacco control within and beyond WHO MPOWER: its long term effectiveness and limitations

    Article • Tobacco Control, November 2018, BMJ

    Dr Wayne Gao

  14. E-cigarette vaping in Taiwan and Asia

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Wayne Gao

  15. China's smoking endemic can be stopped by learning experiences from Hong Kong and Taiwan

    Article • Tobacco Induced Diseases, March 2018, E.U. European Publishing

    Dr Wayne Gao

  16. PM 2.5 is less important than smoking by 10 times in most countries except highly polluted cities

    Article • The Lancet Planetary Health, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  17. Encouraging physical activity for smokers: benefits beyond expectation

    Article • Tobacco Induced Diseases, March 2018, E.U. European Publishing

    Dr Wayne Gao

  18. Transport injuries and deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study

    Article • International Journal of Public Health, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kathryn H. Jacobsen, Dr Samer Hamidi, Mr Morteza Shamsizadeh, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Dr Wayne Gao, Mr Raimundas Lunevicius, Professor Yousef Khader, Rajaa Al-Raddadi

  19. diabetes with kidney involvement shorten life

    Article • Kidney International, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Wayne Gao

  20. Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Article • The Lancet, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Yuan-Pang Wang, Dr Shariful Islam, Dr Samer Hamidi, Professor David M. Pereira, Dr Amador Goodridge, Denny John, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Professor Erkin Mirrakhimov, Dina Nur Anggraini Ningrum, Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic MD, PhD, MAE, PhD. Carla Sofia FARINHA, Dr Wayne Gao, Dr Azmeraw Amare, Mr Raimundas Lunevicius, Professor Yousef Khader, Dr. Jasvinder A. Singh, Melkamu Merid Mengesha , Andrew T. Olagunju, Dr. Bolajoko O. Olusanya, Rajaa Al-Raddadi

  21. Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Article • The Lancet, May 2017, Elsevier

    Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Dr Wayne Gao, Dr Azmeraw Amare, Professor Yousef Khader, Dr. Jasvinder A. Singh, Professor Alina Rodriguez, Rajaa Al-Raddadi