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Ruth E. Malone, RN, PhD, FAAN

Professor
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and
Institute for Health Policy Studies
UCSF Laurel Heights Campus
3333 California Street, Suite 455
San Francisco, CA  94118-1999

Mail:  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 industry and mass media figure in the construction of policy around health risk issues.

My current work focuses on the role of the tobacco industry in shaping understandings of tobacco use and responsibility for risk, and on its targeting of marginalized groups. In particular, we are examining the tobacco industry's 'corporate social responsibility' initiatives within the context of globalizing forces.

My teaching includes health policy theory, tobacco control policy, and policy leadership and communication. I coordinate the health policy Ph.D. specialty focus.

Recent Grants

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

Tobacco industry targeting of older persons. Principal Investigator. (co-PI J. Cataldo). California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. 16RT-0149, $509,991. 7/1/07-6/30/10.

Tobacco Industry Influence on the U.S. Military. Principal Investigator. (co-PIs 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

Professional Activities

Editor-in-chief, Tobacco Control
Editorial Board, BMJ

Reviewer: Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, JAMA, Health Services Research, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Social Studies of Science, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Nursing Inquiry, Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice, PLoS Medicine, Globalization and Health.

Honors and Awards (selected)

2000, UCSF Chancellor's Award for Public Service

2000, UCSF Edison T. Uno Award for Leadership

2004, selected as Fellow, American Academy of Nursing

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

2007-08, Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award for research in United Kingdom

Education

RN, Southern Oregon College

BSN, University of California, San Francisco

MS, University of California, San Francisco

PhD, University of California, San Francisco

Pew/AHCPR Postdoctoral Fellowship,

Health Policy and Health Services Research,

Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF

Consultation:  World Health Organization, Tobacco Free Initiative; U.S. Department of Justice, United States of America vs. Philip Morris et al.; Institute of Medicine; Centers for Disease Control

Selected Publications

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McDaniel, P. A., Intinarelli, G., & Malone, R. E. (2008). Tobacco industry issues management organizations: Creating a global corporate network to undermine public health. BioMed Central Globalization and Health, 4, 2, http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/4/1/2

Yerger, V. B., Wertz, M., McGruder, C., Froelicher, E., & Malone, R. E. (2008). Nicotine replacement therapy: Perceptions of African American smokers seeking to quit. Journal of the National Medical Association, 100(2), 230-236.

Offen, N., Smith, E.A., & Malone, R. E. (2008). Is tobacco a gay issue? Interviews with leaders of the LGBT community. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 10(2), 143-157.

Smith, E. A., Thomson, K., Offen, N., & Malone, R. E. (2008). "If you know you exist, it's just marketing poison": Meanings of tobacco industry targeting in the LGBT community. American Journal of Public Health, 98(6), 996-1003.

Cataldo, J., & Malone, R. E. (2008). False promises: The tobacco industry, low-tar cigarettes, and older smokers. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 56, 1716-1723.

Jarvie, J.A., & Malone, R. E. (2008). Children's secondhand smoke exposure in homes and cars: An ethical analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 98(12), doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.130856. PMID: 18923115

Arvey, S., & Malone, R. E. (2008). Advance and retreat: Tobacco control policy in the U.S. military. Military Medicine, 173, 985-991.

Tesler, L., & Malone, R. E. (2008). Corporate philanthropy, lobbying and public health policy. American Journal of Public Health, 98(12), 2123-33. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.128231. PMID: 18923118

Yang, J. & Malone, R. E. (2008). 'Working to shape what society's expectations of us should be': Philip Morris's societal alignment strategy. Tobacco Control, 17(6):391-8, PMID: 18845623.

Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (2008). Philip Morris's health information website
appears responsible but undermines public health. Public Health Nursing, 25(6), 554-564.

Apollonio, D. E., & Malone, R. E. (2008). Turning negative into positive: Public health mass media campaigns and negative advertising. Health Education Research doi: 10.1093/her/cyn046

McDaniel, P. A., & Malone, R. E. (2009). The role of corporate credibility in legitimizing disease promotion. American Journal of Public Health, 99(3), 452-461, doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.138115

Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (in press). 'Everywhere the soldier will be': Wartime tobacco promotion in the U.S. military. American Journal of Public Health.

Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (in press). Tobacco promotion to military personnel: "The plums are here to be plucked." Military Medicine.



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