University of California, San Francisco
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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San Francisco
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94143-0612
Biographical Sketch: Ruth E. Malone, R.N., M.S., Ph.D. is Professor of nursing and health policy and Vice Chair, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Malone is internationally known for her research on the tobacco industry. Currently, she is studying the tobacco industry’s ‘corporate social responsibility’ initiatives and their implications for public health policy.
A member of the American Academy of Nursing, she received the American Legacy Foundation’s Sybil Jacobs Award for tobacco industry documents research in 2006. During 2007-08, she was a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. Dr. Malone has served as a tobacco industry documents consultant to the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Department of Justice in its landmark fraud and racketeering civil case against the tobacco industry, and as a WHO consultant on tobacco industry interference with tobacco control. She is editor of the international policy and population-focused journal, Tobacco Control.