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Ruth Malone, photo

Ruth E. Malone, RN, Ph.D., FAAN

Professor

Director, Masters Specialty Program in Health Policy
Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Core Faculty, Institute for Health Policy Studies and
Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education

3333 California St., #LHts-455
UCSF Box 0612
San Francisco, CA  94143-0612

Telephone:  (415) 476-3273       Fax:  415-476-6552
Email: ruth.malone@ucsf.edu

Research/Clinical/Teaching/Current Projects

I am interested in how health policy problems and trends emerge, are defined, sustained, and changed, and, in particular, how corporations and mass media figure in health and health policy activities.

I teach health policy theory, tobacco control policy, and policy communications, and in the past also taught the advanced qualitative research methods series for doctoral students. I have a passion for encouraging nurses to become more active in health policy and I coordinate the Health Policy specialty in the Master of Science program in the School of Nursing. I also advise doctoral students in sociology.

My current projects involve exploring tobacco industry and media influences on tobacco use, policies, and perceptions, particularly among marginalized groups, the tobacco industry's influence on the U.S. military, and the tobacco industry's corporate social responsibility initiatives.

Professional Activities

Activism

Founder, Nightingales Nurses, nursing tobacco control activism: http://www.nightingalesnurses.org.

Research and Advocacy

A UCSF-affiliated web site on tobacco industry issues: http://www.AltriaMeansTobacco.com

Professional

Guest Editor and editorial advisory board, Tobacco Control

Reviewer:  American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, JAMA, Health Services Research, Tobacco Control, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Research in Nursing and Health, Nursing Inquiry, Ethics, Place, and Environment, Social Studies of Science, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, British Medical Journal, Health Affairs, Sage Publications

Honors and Awards (selected)

2000:  UCSF Chancellor's Award for Public Service and Edison T. Uno Award for Leadership

2001:  Shannon Award, Tobacco Related Disease Research Program

2003:  Best Poster Award, World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Helsinki, Finland, August 7.
                [with research staff, E. Smith & N. Offen].

2003:  "Champion of Diversity" recognition, UCSF Office of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity

2004:  Nominated for Distinction in Teaching Award, UCSF Academic Senate.

2004:  Nominated for School of Nursing Excellence in Teaching Award, Graduating Masters students

2004:  Nominated for Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award, UCSF

2004:  Selected as Fellow, American Academy of Nursing

2004:  Nominated for American Red Cross/Nursing Spectrum "Nurse Hero" Award

2005:  Nominated for Postdoctoral Scholar's Association Annual Outstanding Mentorship Award, UCSF

2006:  Nominated by American Nurses' Association for International Council of Nurses' Bank of Nurse Experts (Tobacco)

2006:  Nominated for Distinction in Teaching Award, UCSF Academic Senate

2006:  Sybil Jacobs Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents, American Legacy Foundation.

Education

RN, Southern Oregon College

PhD, University of California, San Francisco

Pew/AHCPR Postdoctoral Fellowship, Health Policy and Health Services Research,
UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies

Recent Grants

2000-02:  Tobacco Industry Targeting of African Americans. (Principal Investigator).
California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program,
Shannon Award, Grant # 9RT-0095. $100,000.

2001-05:  Tobacco Industry Targeting of Gays and Lesbians. (Principal Investigator).
National Cancer Institute/NIH. Grant # 1 R01 CA90789-01. $747,000.

2001:  Factors Influencing Availability of Emergency Room On-Call Coverage.
(Principal Investigator. Co-PI, Daniel Dohan).
California State Senate Office of Research, California Policy Research Center, and
California Program on Access to Care. $25,000.

2002:  Tobacco Industry Responses to Industry-Focused Campaigns.
Principal Investigator. California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.
Grant # 11RT-0139. 7/1/02-6/30/05; $310,500.

2002:  San Francisco BayView-Hunters Point Partnership Toward Smoking Cessation
(Pilot Community - Academic Research). Principal Investigator.
California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. Grant # 11BT-1701.
7/1/02-6/30/03; $75,000.

2003-07:  Responses to Public Health Campaigns. Principal Investigator.
National Cancer Institute/NIH. Grant # R01 CA095989.
07/01/03-06/30/07; $570,000.

2003-06:  Protecting the 'Hood Against Tobacco: Cessation Project.
Principal Investigator. California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.
Grant #12AT-1700. 7/1/03-6/30/06; $510,000.

2004-09:  Tobacco Industry Influence on the U.S. Military. Principal Investigator.
Co-P.I.s: Harry Lando, U. Minnesota; Keith Haddock, U. Missouri, & E. Smith.
Multi-site collaborative project. National Cancer Institute. $2.1 million.
7/1/04-6/30/09. R01 CA109153

2006-2111:  The tobacco problem: Public health implications of contested frames. Principal Investigator. National Cancer Institute. $1.2 million. 5/1/06-4/30/11. R01 CA120138

Selected Publications

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Malone, R. E. (1995).  Heavy users of emergency services:  Social construction of a policy problem. Social Science and Medicine, 40(4), 469-477.

Malone, R. E. (1998).  Whither the almshouse?  Overutilization and the role of the emergency department.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 23 (5), 795-832.

Malone, R. E. (1999). Policy as product:  Morality and metaphor in health policy discourse.  The Hastings Center Report, 29 (3), 16-22.

Malone, R. E. & Bero, L. A. (2000).  Cigars, youth, and the Internet link.  American Journal of Public Health, 90 (5), 790-792.

Malone, R. E. (2000).  Dimensions of vulnerability in emergency nurses' narratives.  Advances in Nursing Science, 23(1), 1-11.

Malone, R. E., & Balbach, E. D. (2000).  Tobacco industry documents:  Treasure trove or quagmire?  Tobacco Control, 9, 334-338.

Malone, R. E., Boyd, E., & Bero, L. A. (2000).  Science in the news:  Journalists' constructions of passive smoking as a social problem. Social Studies of Science, 30 (5), 713-735.

Wenger, L. D., Malone, R.E.., & Bero, L. A. (2001). The cigar revival and the popular press:  A content analysis 1987-1997. American Journal of Public Health, 91(2), 288-291.

Yerger, V., Pearson, C., & Malone, R.E. (2001).  When is a cigar not a cigar?  American Journal of Public Health, 91(2), 316-317.

Wenger, L.D., Malone, R. E., George, A., & Bero, L.A.  (2001).  Cigar magazines:  Using tobacco to sell a lifestyle. Tobacco Control, 10(3), 279-284.

Malone, R. E., Yerger, V., & Pearson, C. (2001).  Cigar risk perceptions in focus groups of urban African-American youth.  Journal of Substance Abuse, 13 , 549-561.

Malone, R. E., Wenger, L. D., & Bero, L. A. (2002).  High school journalists' perspectives on tobacco.  Journal of Health Communication, 7(2), 139-156.

Malone, R. E. (2002).  Tobacco industry surveillance of public health groups:  The case of STAT and INFACT.  American Journal of Public Health, 92(6), 955-960.

Malone, R. E. & Luft, H. S. (2002).  Perspectives on accountability:  Past, present, and future. In M. Danis, C. Clancy, & Churchill, L. R. (Eds.), Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy (pp. 263-280). New York: Oxford University Press.

Dohan, D., & Malone, R. E. (2002).  Factors influencing availability of emergency room on-call coverage:  Report to the California Senate Office of Research. California Policy Research Center and California Program on Access to Care.

Weiss, S.M., Malone, R. E., Merighi, J. R., & Benner, P. (2002).  Economism, efficiency, and the moral ecology of good nursing practice.  Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 34(2), 95-119.

Yerger, V.B., & Malone, R. E. (2002).  African-American leadership groups:  Smoking with the enemy.  Tobacco Control, 11, 336-345.

Malone, R. E. (2002).  Nursing, our public deaths, and the tobacco industry.  American Journal of Critical Care, 11(2), 102-105.

Smith, E.A., & Malone, R. E. (2003).  'Altria' means tobacco:  Philip Morris' identity crisis.  American Journal of Public Health, 93, 553-556.

Malone, R. E. (2003).  Distal nursing.   Social Science and Medicine, 56, 2317-2326.

Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (2003).  The outing of Philip Morris:  Advertising tobacco to gay men.  American Journal of Public Health, 93, 988-993.

Smith, E.A., & Malone, R. E. (2003).  Thinking the 'unthinkable':  Why Philip Morris considered quitting.  Tobacco Control, 12, 208-213.

Offen, N., Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (2003).  From adversary to target market:  The ACT-UP boycott of Philip Morris.  Tobacco Control, 12, 203-207.

Malone, R. E., & Bero, L. (2003).  Chasing the dollar:  Why scientists should decline tobacco industry funding.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 57, 546-548.

Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (2004).  "Creative solutions":  Selling cigarettes in a smoke-free world.  Tobacco Control, 13, 57-63.

Wander, N., & Malone, R. E. (2004).  Selling off or selling out?  Medical schools and ethical leadership in tobacco stock divestment.  Academic Medicine, 79 (11), 1017-1026.

Yerger, V.B., Daniel, M. R., & Malone, R.E. (2005).  Taking it to the streets:  Responses of African American young adults to internal tobacco industry documents.  Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 7(1), 163-172.

McDaniel, P. A., & Malone, R. E. (2005).  Understanding Philip Morris' pursuit of U.S. government regulation of tobacco.  Tobacco Control, 14, 193-200.

Offen, N., Smith, E. A., and Malone, R. E. (2005).  The perimetric boycott: A tool for tobacco control advocacy. Tobacco Control, 14, 272-277.

McDaniel, P.A., Solomon, G., & Malone, R. E. (2005).  The tobacco industry and pesticide regulations: Case studies. Environmental Health Perspectives. doi:10.1289/ehp.7452. [Online 8 August 2005] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/7452/abstract.html

Apollonio, D. E., & Malone, R. E. (2005). Marketing to the marginalized: Tobacco industry targeting of the homeless and mentally ill. Tobacco Control, 14 (6), 409-415. Available: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/1095

McDaniel, P.A., Solomon, G., & Malone, R. E. (2006). Taste-testing pesticide treated tobacco: The ethics of industry experimentation using employees. American Journal of Public Health, 96: 37 - 46. Available: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/1089

Wander, N., & Malone, R. E. (2006). Fiscal vs. social responsibility: How Philip Morris shaped the public funds divestment debate. Tobacco Control, 15, 231-241.

McDaniel, P. A., Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (2006). Philip Morris's Project Sunrise: Weakening tobacco control by working with it. Tobacco Control, 15, 215-223. Available: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/1168

Smith, E. A., Offen, N., & Malone, R. E. (in press). Pictures worth a thousand words: Non-commercial tobacco content in the lesbian, gay and bisexual press. Journal of Health Communication.

Yerger, V. B., & Malone, R. E. (in press). Nicotine and melanin: A

review of the literature. Nicotine and Tobacco Research.

Balbach, E. D., Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (in press). How the health belief model helps the tobacco industry: Individuals, choice, and "information." Tobacco Control.

Wander, N., & Malone, R. E. (in press). Making Big Tobacco give in: You lose, they win. American Journal of Public Health.

Malone, R. E., Yerger, V. B., McGruder, C., & Froelicher, E. (in press). ‘It's like Tuskegee in reverse': A case study of ethical tensions in IRB review of community participatory research. American Journal of Public Health.

Malone, R. E. (in press). Nursing's involvement in tobacco control: Historical perspective and vision for the future. Nursing Research.




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