Janice Tsoh, PhD

Professor In Residence
Psychiatry
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I am a clinical psychologist and Professor Emerita of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Until June 2026, I served as Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and as an attending psychologist at UCSF Health. I also served as Co-Director of the Asian American Research Center on Health (AsianARCH.org) from 2017 to 2025.

My research program aims to advance health equity by translating evidence-based interventions into accessible, culturally and linguistically responsive programs in communities and health care systems. My work focuses on immigrant mental health and emotional wellness, health promotion and disparities in Asian immigrant communities, and tobacco cessation and cancer-related health disparities, with an emphasis on populations facing linguistic, cultural, and structural barriers to care.

Current and recent work includes INFORMED, a multilingual peer outreach and text-messaging intervention promoting emotional wellness among Asian Americans, and international collaborations examining immigrant mental health and access to care. As a Multiple Principal Investigator of the CARE Research Registry, I contribute to efforts to increase Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander representation in health research. My longstanding Healthy Family Project engages lay health workers, families, and social networks to promote tobacco cessation and other healthy behaviors. My clinical research has also developed scalable, multilingual approaches to improve access to evidence-based tobacco treatment, particularly in cancer care. Across these areas, I seek to build on the strengths of individuals, families, and communities while improving access to evidence-based prevention and care.

Since 2000, I have been actively involved in research and clinical teaching and mentorship of predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees at UCSF. I currently serve as Associate Director of a NIDA-funded T32 Postdoctoral Training Fellowship in Substance Use Disorders Treatment and Services Research. My approach to mentorship is to tailor training and research opportunities to each scholar’s career stage and goals, with a longstanding commitment to mentoring scholars from backgrounds underrepresented in health research. Developing the next generation of researchers and research mentors remains one of my most valued roles as an educator.

Publications

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ preferences in recruitment strategies/messaging for participation in a research recruitment registry for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, aging, and caregiving research: A discrete choice experiment sur

Alzheimer's & Dementia

Van Ta Park, Joshua D. Grill, Niloufar Ameli, Sarit Helman, Marian Tzuang, Janice Y. Tsoh, Oanh L. Meyer, Bora Nam, Ladson Hinton, Alka Kanaya, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Quyen Vuong, Joon Bang, Hye-Won Shin, Stuart Gansky

Smoking Status, Nicotine Medication, Vaccination, and COVID-19 Hospital Outcomes: Findings from the COVID EHR Cohort at the University of Wisconsin (CEC-UW) Study.

Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco

Piasecki TM, Smith SS, Baker TB, Slutske WS, Adsit RT, Bolt DM, Conner KL, Bernstein SL, Eng OD, Lazuk D, Gonzalez A, Jorenby DE, D'Angelo H, Kirsch JA, Williams BS, Nolan MB, Hayes-Birchler T, Kent S, Kim H, Lubanski S, Yu M, Suk Y, Cai Y, Kashyap N, Mathew JP, McMahan G, Rolland B, Tindle HA, Warren GW, An LC, Boyd AD, Brunzell DH, Carrillo V, Chen LS, Davis JM, Deshmukh VG, Dilip D, Ellerbeck EF, Goldstein AO, Iturrate E, Jose T, Khanna N, King A, Klass E, Mermelstein RJ, Tong E, Tsoh JY, Wilson KM, Theobald WE, Fiore MC

The first 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Mortality, intubation and ICU rates among 104,590 patients hospitalized at 21 United States health systems.

PloS one

Fiore MC, Smith SS, Adsit RT, Bolt DM, Conner KL, Bernstein SL, Eng OD, Lazuk D, Gonzalez A, Jorenby DE, D'Angelo H, Kirsch JA, Williams B, Nolan MB, Hayes-Birchler T, Kent S, Kim H, Piasecki TM, Slutske WS, Lubanski S, Yu M, Suk Y, Cai Y, Kashyap N, Mathew JP, McMahan G, Rolland B, Tindle HA, Warren GW, An LC, Boyd AD, Brunzell DH, Carrillo V, Chen LS, Davis JM, Dilip D, Ellerbeck EF, Iturrate E, Jose T, Khanna N, King A, Klass E, Newman M, Shoenbill KA, Tong E, Tsoh JY, Wilson KM, Theobald WE, Baker TB

Knowledge Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in Health and Prevention Research for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Report From the 2021 National Institutes of Health Workshop.

Annals of internal medicine

Kanaya AM, Hsing AW, Panapasa SV, Kandula NR, Araneta MRG, Shimbo D, Wang P, Gomez SL, Lee J, Narayan KMV, Mau MKLM, Bose S, Daviglus ML, Hu FB, Islam N, Jackson CL, Kataoka-Yahiro M, Kauwe JSK, Liu S, Ma GX, Nguyen T, Palaniappan L, Setiawan VW, Trinh-Shevrin C, Tsoh JY, Vaidya D, Vickrey B, Wang TJ, Wong ND, Coady S, Hong Y

Relationship Between Symptom Severity, Psychiatric Comorbidity, Social/Occupational Impairment, and Suicidality in Hoarding Disorder.

Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Christian A. Archer, Kyara Moran, Karen Garza, Jessica J. Zakrzewski, Anna Martin, Chia-Ying Chou, Soo Y. Uhm, Joanne Chan, Michael Gause, Mark Salazar, Julian Plumadore, Lauren C. Smith, Kiya Komaiko, Gillian Howell, Ofilio Vigil, David Bain, Sandra Stark, R. Scott Mackin, Monika Eckfield, Eduardo Vega, Janice Y. Tsoh, Kevin L. Delucchi, Carol A. Mathews

Clinical Psychology Review

Eating disorders: Efficacy of pharmacological and psychological interventions

Johnson, W.G., Tsoh, J.Y., & Varnado, P.J.