Wendy Max

Wendy B. Max
OccupationProfessor of Health Economics emerita
Academic background
Education
  • Ph.D. in Economics
  • B.A. in History and Economics

Wendy B. Max is professor of health economics emerita and a former director of the Institute for Health & Aging in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. Her focus is on the cost of illness, in particular the cost of smoking-related illness.[1] Max was an undergraduate at Stanford University. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.[1]

Notable publications include

  • 2004 Froelicher ES, Sohn M, Max W, Bacchetti P. Women's initiative for nonsmoking VII: Evaluation of health service utilization and costs among women smokers with cardiovascular disease. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation 2004; 24: 218–228.
  • 2004 Max W, Rice DP, Finkelstein E, Bardwell RA, Leadbetter MS. The economic toll of intimate partner violence against women in the United States, 1995. Violence and Victims 19(3): 259–72.
  • 2004 Max W, Rice DP, Sung H-Y, Zhang X, Miller L. The economic burden of smoking in California. Tobacco Control 2004; 13: 264–67.

References

  1. ^ a b "Wendy Max". UCSF Profiles. Archived from the original on November 15, 2025. Retrieved January 13, 2026.
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