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Tung-Sung Tseng, DrPH, MS, CHES/MCHES
Associate Professor
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| Degrees | Bachelor of Science - 1994 Master of Science - 1996 Doctor of Public Health - 2005 |
| Bio | Dr. Tung-Sung Tseng, is an Associate Professor in Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Dr. Tseng is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) / Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) and co-chairs the Ethics Committee of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). He is an active member of the Tobacco Control Initiative (TCI), a multi-disciplinary program the specializes in helping tobacco users quit, in party by offering free or low-cost tobacco treatment services to all Louisiana public hospital patients, employees, and the communities they serve. He also serves as a member of Design and Analysis Core, LSU’s Improving Clinical Outcomes Network and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center. His primary research interests include tobacco control, childhood obesity, gene-environment interaction, risk behavioral patterns, health promotion interventions and evaluations, health disparities, and cancer prevention among ethnic minorities and underserved populations. |
| Research Interests | Tobacco Control Childhood obesity |
| Teaching Activities | Community Health Analysis, Health Disparities and Ecology Advanced Community Health Analysis |
| Committees & Administrative Responsibilities | American Public Health Association, 2003-Present Associate Editor, Health Behavior and Policy Review, 2013-Present. Associate Editor, Translational Cancer Research, 2015 |
| Selected Publications | Tseng TS, Lin H, Gender and Age Disparity in Health Related Behaviors and Behavioral Patterns Based on A National Study of Taiwan, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 15(1):1-7, 2008. Kohler C, Schoenberger YM, Tseng TS, Rose L., Correlates of transitions in stage of change for quitting among adolescent smokers. Addictive Behaviors, 33:1615-1618, 2008. Tseng TS, Holt CL, Shipp M, Eloubeidi M, Britt K, Norena M, Fouad MN., Predictors of colorectal cancer knowledge and screening among church-attending African Americans and Whites in the Deep South, Journal of Community Health. 34(2):90-97, 2009. Bastida, E.M., Tseng, T.S., McKeever, C., Jack, L. Ethics and Community-Based Participatory Research: Perspectives From the Field. Health Promotion Practice. 11(1): 16-20, 2010. Tseng, T.S., Lin, H., Martin, M.Y., Chen, T., Partridge, E. Disparities in Smoking and Cessation Status among Cancer Survivors and Non-Cancer Individuals: A Population-based Study from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 4(4): 313-321, 2010. Martin, M.Y., Kim, Y., Kratt, P., Litaker, M., Kohler, C., Schoenberger, Y., Clarke, S., Prayor-Patterson, H., Tseng, T.S., Pisu, M., Williams, O.D. Medication Adherence among Rural, Low Income Hypertensive Adults: A Randomized Trial of a Multimedia Community Based Intervention. American Journal of Health Promotion. 25(6):372-378, 2011. Tseng, T.S., Lin, H., Moody-Thomas, S., Martin, M.Y., Chen, T. Who Tended to Continue Smoking after Cancer Diagnosis: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2008. BMC Public Health. 2012 Sep 14;12(1):784. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 22974404. Lin, H.Y., Amankwah, E.K., Tseng, T.S., Qu, X., Chen, D.T., Park, J.Y. SNP-SNP Interaction Network in Angiogenesis Genes Associated with Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness. PLoS One. 2013;8(4), e59688: 1-9. Moody-Thomas, S., Celestin, M.D. Jr.,Tseng, T.S., Horswell, R. Patient Tobacco Use, Quit Attempts, and Perception of Health Care Provider Practices in a Safety-Net Health Care System. The Ochsner Journal. 13:367-374. 2013 Martin, M.Y., Evans, M., Kratt, P., Pollack, L., Lee, J., Oster R., Dignan, M., Prayor-Patterson, H., Watson, C., Houston, P., Andrews, S., Liwo, A., Tseng, T-S., Hullett, S., Oliver, J., Pisu, M. Meeting the Information Needs of Lower Income Cancer Survivors: Results of a Randomized Control Trial Evaluating the American Cancer Society's "I Can Cope". Journal of Health Communication. 0:1-19. 2014. Tseng, T.S., Moody-Thomas, S., Ronald, H., Young, Y., Celestin, M.D. Jr., Jones, K.D. Impact of a federal cigarette tax increase on readiness-to-quit among low-income smokers. Preventing Chronic Disease.11:130203. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd11.130203, 2014 Zabaleta, J., Velasco-Gonzalez, C., Estrada, J., Ravussin, E., Pelligrino, N., Mohler, M., Larson-Meyer, D. E., Boulares, H., Powell-Young, Y., Bennett, B., Happel, K., Cefalu, W., Scribner, R., Tseng, T.S., and Sothern, M. Inverse correlation of inflammatory markers with metabolic parameters in healthy, Black and White pre-pubertal youth. International Journal of Obesity.38(4):563-8, 2014. Bonis, M., Loftin, M., Ward, D., Tseng, T.S., Clesi, A., Sothern, M. Improving physical activity in daycare interventions. Childhood Obesity. 10(4): 334- 341. 2014. Zhang, L., Chen, L., Ferguson, T., Simonsen, N., Tseng, T.S. Racial/Ethnic Disparities of HRQOL among US Adult Self-Reported Diabetic Patients from NHANES 2001-2008. The Diabetes Educator. 40(4), 496-506. 2014. Tseng TS, Park JY, Zabaleta J, Moody-Thomas S, Sothern MS, Chen T, Lin HY. Role of nicotine dependence on the relationship between genetic variants and risk of lung adenocarcinoma. PLoS One. 9(9): e107268. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107268, 2014 Mohler, M., Tseng, T.S., Volaufova, J., Scribner, R., Nuss, H., and Sothern, M. Preschool obesity is inversely associated with vegetable intake, grocery stores and outdoor play. Pediatric Obesity, doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12058, 2015 |