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Photo of Ruth E. Malone, PhD, RN  Ruth E. Malone, PhD, RN

Professor, Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

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Box 1390, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1390

Education

Southern Oregon College, Ashland, OR, A.S., Highest Honors, 1977, Nursing
University of California, San Francisco, B.S.N., Highest Honors, 1989; M.S., 1991, Community Health/Cross-Cultural Nursing
University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D., 1995, Nursing
Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1995-97, Health Policy/Health Services Research

Professional Experience

  • 1977-1995
    Clinical nursing; acute care hospitals in Oregon and California
  • 1990-1993
    Teaching and Research Assistant, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing
  • 1995-1997
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco
  • 1997-2001
    Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, UCSF
  • 1997-present
    Core Faculty, Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, UCSF
  • 2001-2002
    Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, UCSF
  • 2002-2006
    Associate Professor & Director, Health Policy Program, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, UCSF
  • 2006-present
    Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, UCSF

Honors & Awards

  • 1988-89
    Birdzel Scholarship,UCSF School of Nursing
  • 1989-92
    California State Graduate Fellowships (three years)
  • 1990-91
    Lucy C. Perry Scholarship, Nurses' Educational Funds
  • 1991-1994
    University of California Regents Fellow
  • 1994-95
    Alameda County Nurses Association Scholarship
  • 1994-95
    Hiemenz Award, Tyson Award; NEF Scholar, Nurses' Educational Funds
  • 1994
    Graduate Student Research Award, UCSF Graduate Division
  • 1994
    Research Award, Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Eta Chapter (Nursing Honor Society)
  • 1994-1995
    Health Services Dissertation Research Grant, Agency for Health Care Policy & Research
  • 1998-1999
    Mt. Zion Health Systems/UCSF Clinical Investigator Research Program Award
  • 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
  • 2004
    Selected Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
  • 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
  • 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 (Awarded in Washington, D.C. at World Conference on Tobacco or Health).

Selected Publications

  • 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., & Balbach, E. D. (2000). Tobacco industry documents: Treasure trove or quagmire? Tobacco Control, 9, 334-338. [* Identified by ISI as one of most-cited papers in tobacco documents research]
  • Malone, R. E., Wenger, L. D., & Bero, L. A. (2000). Making the cigar news. Tobacco Control, 9, 435-436.
  • 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.
  • 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., & 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.
  • Malone, R. E. (2001) (contributing author, cigars section). Women and smoking: A report of the Surgeon General-2001. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health.
  • 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., & 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.
  • 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. (2002). Nursing, our public deaths, and the tobacco industry. American Journal of Critical Care, 11(2), 102-105.
  • Malone, R. E. (2002). Tobacco industry documents: Comparing the Minnesota Depository and internet access. Tobacco Control, 11(3), 285.
  • Yerger, V.B., & Malone, R. E. (2002). African American leadership groups: Smoking with the enemy. Tobacco Control, 11, 336-345.
  • 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. (2003). 'Altria' means tobacco: Philip Morris's identity crisis. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 553-556.
  • 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.
  • 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. (in press). Taking it to the streets: Responses of African American young adults to internal tobacco industry documents. Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
  • Malone, R. E. (2005). Assessing the policy environment. Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice, 6 (2), 135-143.
  • McDaniel, P. A., & Malone, R. E. (2005). Understanding Philip Morris's 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]
  • 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.
  • Smith, E. A., Offen, N., & Malone, R. E. (2005). What makes an ad a cigarette ad? Commercial tobacco imagery in the lesbian, gay, bisexual press. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59, 1086-1091.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Malone, R. E. (2006). Nursing's involvement in tobacco control: Historical perspective and vision for the future. Nursing Research, 55(4S), S51-S57.
  • Yerger, V. B., & Malone, R. E. (2006). Nicotine and melanin: A review of the literature. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 8(4):487-98.
  • Malone, R. E., Yerger, V. B., McGruder, C., & Froelicher, E. (2006). 'It's like Tuskegee in reverse': A case study of ethical tensions in IRB review of community participatory research. American Journal of Public Health, 96(11), 1914-1919.
  • Wander, N., & Malone, R. E. (2006). Making Big Tobacco give in: You lose, they win. American Journal of Public Health. 96 (11), 2048-2054.
  • Smith, E.A., & Malone, R. E. (2006). "We will speak as the smoker": The tobacco industry's smokers' rights groups. European Journal of Public Health, advance publication online October 25, http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/rapidpdf/ckl244? ijkey=4u24rOUEuyfFhKI&keytype=ref
  • Smith, E. A., Offen, N., & Malone, R. E. (2006). Pictures worth a thousand words: Non-commercial tobacco content in the lesbian, gay and bisexual press. Journal of Health Communication, 11(7), 635-649.

Updated: October 31, 2011