Dr. Jinhui Zhao

About Jinhui

Dr. Jinhui Zhao received his medical degree from Harbin Medical University, China, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Demography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, a MSc degree in Epidemiology and Diploma in Addiction Studies from University of Toronto and his PhD in Community Health and Epidemiology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is currently working as scientist and senior data analyst at the University of Victoria Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR). His research interests include epidemiology and statistics of substance use (including alcohol, nicotine, illicit drugs and gambling).

Projects

• Alcohol, energy drinks and other stimulants: An emergency room study assessing the effects of gender, context and substance use on injury risk
• An updated systematic review and meta-analysis of alcohol use and all-cause mortality
• BC Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) monitoring project
• Managed alcohol and cannabis substitution: A feasibility study
• Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study
• The Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Studies (CMAPS)
• The economic costs of substance use in Canada (CSUCH)
• The impact of immediate roadside prohibitions for drinking drivers on alcohol-related collisions

Publications

• A comparison of private and government-controlled liquor stores in British Columbia
• Alcohol's contribution to cancer is underestimated for exactly the same reason that its contribution to cardio-protection is overestimated
• Alcohol consumption and incidence of prostate cancer among Chinese people: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Alcohol Consumption and Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease: An Updated Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies
• Alcohol consumption in British Columbia and Canada: A case for liquor taxes that reduce harm (PDF 334kb)
• Alcohol outlet densities and alcohol price: The British Columbia experiment in the partial privatization of alcohol sales off-premise
• Alcohol sales in Canadian liquor outlets as a predictor of subsequent COVID-19 infection rates: a time-series analysis
• An adaptation of the Yesterday Method to correct for underreporting of alcohol consumption and estimate compliance with Canadian low risk drinking guidelines
• Apologizing for the Alcohol Industry? A Comment on ISFAR's Defense of Alcohol's Purported Health Benefits
• Assessing the impacts of Saskatchewan's minimum alcohol pricing regulations on alcohol-related crime
• Association Between Daily Alcohol Intake and Risk of All-Cause Mortality
• Associations Between COVID-19 Alcohol Policy Restrictions and Alcohol Sales in British Columbia: Variation by Area-based Deprivation Level
• Attributable fractions for substance use in relation to crime
• Baseline Assessment of Alcohol-Related Knowledge of and Support for Alcohol Warning Labels Among Alcohol Consumers in Northern Canada and Associations With Key Sociodemographic Characteristics
• Calling time on low-risk drinking guidelines: An evaluation of alternative methods to communicate risks of alcohol use to consumers
• Counting the cold ones: A comparison of methods measuring total alcohol consumption of managed alcohol program participants
• Does managing the consumption of people with severe alcohol dependence reduce harm? A comparison of participants in six Canadian managed alcohol programs with locally recruited controls
• Does minimum pricing reduce alcohol consumption? The experience of a Canadian province
• Do managed alcohol programs change patterns of alcohol consumption and reduce related harm? A pilot study
• Do “moderate” drinkers have reduced mortality risk? A systematic review and meta-analysis of alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality
• Estimates of compliance with Canada’s guidelines for low and moderate risk alcohol consumption: the importance of adjustment for underreporting in self-report surveys
• Estimating under- and over-reporting of drinking in national surveys of alcohol consumption: Identification of consistent biases across four English-speaking countries
• Estimation of the impacts of substance use on workplace productivity: a hybrid human capital and prevalence-based approach applied to Canada
• Examining the Impact of Alcohol Labels on Awareness and Knowledge of National Drinking Guidelines: A Real-World Study in Yukon, Canada
• Factors associated with public injection and nonfatal overdose among people who inject drugs in street-based settings
• Gender differences in the consumption of alcohol mixed with caffeine and risk of injury
• How do people with homelessness and alcohol dependence cope when alcohol is unaffordable? A comparison of residents of Canadian managed alcohol programs and locally recruited controls
• How much did you actually drink last night? An evaluation of standard drink labels as an aid to monitoring personal consumption
• How much did you actually drink last night? An evaluation of standard drink labels as an aid to monitoring personal consumption
• How should we label our alcohol? (PDF 726kb)
• Hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and depression among older methadone maintenance patients in British Columbia
• Impact on alcohol-related mortality of a rapid rise in the density of private liquor outlets in British Columbia: A local area multi-level analysis
• Interaction between alcohol drinking and obesity in relation to colorectal cancer risk: a case-control study in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Is alcohol consumption a risk factor for prostate cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Is alcohol consumption a risk factor for prostate cancer? A systematic review and meta–analysis
• ISFAR Doth Protest Too Much: Another Attempt From Industry Sympathizers to Marginalize Scientific Skepticism About Alcohol’s Hypothesized Health Benefits?
• Legalization of Cannabis in Canada: Implementation strategies and public health
• Market share of alcohol products and price incentives (PDF 176kb)
• Minimum alcohol prices and outlet densities in British Columbia, Canada: Estimated impacts on alcohol-attributable hospital admissions
• Misleading UK alcohol industry criticism of Canadian research on minimum pricing
• Model-based appraisal of alcohol minimum pricing in Ontario and British Columbia
• Model-based appraisal of alcohol minimum pricing in Ontario and British Columbia: A Canadian adaptation of the Sheffield Alcohol Policy, Model Version 2 (PDF 1mb)
• Original quantitative research – What popular bars post on social media platforms: a case for improved alcohol advertising regulation
• Patterns of homelessness in Greater Victoria
• Per adult consumption of alcohol in British Columbia: 2002 to 2005. In: Mapping Substance Use in BC and Canada (PDF 265kb)
• Prevalence report 2008-12: Alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes & other drugs in BC & other provinces (PDF 262kb)
• Prevalence report 2008-12: Alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes & RX drugs in BC & other provinces (PDF 391kb)
• Prevalence report 2008-12: Cocaine, ecstasy, heroin & other drugs in BC & other provinces (PDF 341kb)
• Regional variations and trends in substance use and related harm in BC (PDF 349kb)
• Relationships between minimum alcohol pricing and crime during the partial privatization of a Canadian government alcohol monopoly
• Relationships Between Minimum Alcohol Pricing and Crime During the Partial Privatization of a Canadian Government Alcohol Monopoly
• Reported intake of selected micronutrients and risk of colorectal cancer: results from a large population-based case–control study in Newfoundland, Labrador and Ontario, Canada
• Selection biases in observational studies affect associations between ‘moderate’ alcohol consumption and mortality
• Testing the Effectiveness of Enhanced Alcohol Warning Labels and Modifications Resulting From Alcohol Industry Interference in Yukon, Canada: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study
• The Effects of Alcohol Warning Labels on Population Alcohol Consumption: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Alcohol Sales in Yukon, Canada
• The impact on alcohol-related collisions of the partial decriminalization of impaired driving in British Columbia, Canada
• The impacts of minimum alcohol pricing on alcohol attributable morbidity in regions of British Colombia, Canada with low, medium and high mean family income
• The price of getting high, stoned and drunk in BC: A comparison of minimum prices for alcohol and other psychoactive substances (PDF 423kb)
• The raising of minimum alcohol prices in Saskatchewan, Canada: Impacts on consumption and implications for public health
• The rate ratio of injury and aggressive incident for alcohol alone, cocaine alone and simultaneous use before the event: A case–crossover study
• The relationship between changes to minimum alcohol prices, outlet density and alcohol-attributable deaths in British Columbia, 2002-2009
• Tobacco smoking and colorectal cancer: A population-based case-control study in Newfoundland and Labrador
• Towards alcohol harm reduction and housing stability: Preliminary findings of Thunder Bay managed alcohol programs (PDF 645kb)
• Trajectories of Alcohol Use and Related Harms for Managed Alcohol Program Participants over 12 Months Compared with Local Controls: A Quasi-Experimental Study
• Underestimation of alcohol consumption in cohort studies and implications for alcohol's contribution to the Global Burden of Disease
• Who under-reports their alcohol consumption in telephone surveys and by how much? An application of the ‘yesterday method’ in a national Canadian substance use survey
• Why do only some cohort studies find health benefits from low volume alcohol use? A systematic review and meta-analysis of study characteristics that may bias mortality risk estimates