Hana Ross

Hana Ross
Senior Research Associate

email: hzarub1@yahoo.com
telephone: (+43-1) 5336610

Hana Ross is Senior Research Associate at wiiw and country expert for Eastern Europe and Western Balkans countries. Her research focuses on economic analysis related to taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks. She is also a member of the editorial board of Tobacco Control journal. In her recent research, she analysed the impact of the EU Tobacco Tax Directive on tobacco use and tax revenue and studied the impact of track and trace on illicit cigarette trade in Pakistan. She assembled comprehensive academic and international experience in the USA (University of Illinois at Chicago, RTI, American Cancer Society) and South Africa (University of Cape Town), and graduated in economics (PhD) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a World Bank consultant on the issues related to health taxes.

Austria, Vienna

List of Publications

External Publications wiiw Publications

External Publications

Articles in refereed journals
  • 'An assessment of proposals for reforming the European union's tobacco tax directive' (with J. Robert Branston and Ángel López-Nicolás), Elsevier, International Journal of Drug Policy, Volume 137, March 2025, 104724
  • 'Tobacco Taxation in Spain: A Tax Laggard With a Brighter Possible Future' (with J. Robert Branston and Ángel López-Nicolás), Oxford Academic, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2025, pp. 46-53
  • 'Smoking prevention that increases tax revenue: tobacco taxes in the Czech Republic 2004-2020' (with Eva Králíková and Kamila Zvolská), Central European Journal of Public Health, 31(2), June 2023, pp. 83-89
Articles in non-refereed journals
  • 'Evaluating compliance with track and trace and other regulations in Pakistan’s cigarette market' (with Saeed Ansaari, Estelle Dauchy and Amina Khan), BMJ Journals, Tobacco Control, October 2024
  • 'An overlooked market: loose cigarettes, informal vendors and their implications for tobacco taxation' (with Max Gallien and Giovanni Occhiali), BMJ Journals, Tobacco Control, Volume 33, Issue 6, October 2024, pp. 720-726
  • 'Response of legal and illegal cigarette prices to a tax increase in Ethiopia' (with Sisay Derso Mengesha), BMJ Journals, Tobacco Control, Volume 33, Issue 5, September 2024, pp. 648-653
  • 'Improving estimates of the illicit cigarette trade through collaboration: lessons from two studies of Malaysia' (with J. Robert Branston, Allen W. A. Gallagher, Wency Kher Thinng Bui, Ridzuan Kunji Koya and Norashidah Mohamed Nor), BMJ Journals, Tobacco Control, January 2024
Shorter papers and comments
  • 'The illicit cigarette market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): findings from a cross-sectional study of empty cigarette packs' (with Noreen Dadirai Mdege, Emmanuel Kandate, Christus Cito Miderho, Patrice Milambo, Didier Mirindi, Retselisitsoe Pokothoane, Kelley Sams, Patrick Shamba and Christelle Tchoupe), medRxiv, October 2024
  • 'Illicit Cigarette Trade and Tax evasion in Zambia: Findings from the Tobacco Control Data Initiative 2023' (with Aminata Camara, Noreen Dadirai Mdege, Fastone Matthew Goma, Seember Joy Ali, Mbaita Maka, Webby Mwamulela, Sharon Ogolla, Masauso Moses Phiri, Retselisitsoe Pokothoane, Richard Zulu and Cosmas Zyambo), medRxiv, October 2024

wiiw Publications

wiiw Policy Notes and Reports
  • 'Analysis of the Fiscal and Health Impact of Increasing Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ukraine, Ukrainian Version: Аналіз фіскального та медичного впливу підвищення акцизів на тютюнові вироби в Україні' (with Kristijan Fidanovski, Biljana Jovanovikj and Nóra Kungl), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 82, Vienna, August 2024
  • 'Analysis of the Fiscal and Health Impact of Increasing Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ukraine' (with Kristijan Fidanovski, Biljana Jovanovikj and Nóra Kungl), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 82, Vienna, August 2024
top