Wendy Max

Wendy B. Max
Occupation	Professor 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.^{[ citation needed ]} 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. "Wendy Max". UCSF Profiles. Archived from the original on November 15, 2025. Retrieved January 13, 2026.

External links

• Institute for Health & Aging website