Ruth Malone, PhD RN
Profile
Research focuses on tobacco industry activities aimed at undermining public health, strategic positioning and messaging, marginalized populations, and emerging developments in the social construction of tobacco use. Dr. Malone is known nationally and internationally for her research on the tobacco industry’s strategic efforts to counter public health. Her work is funded by the National Cancer Institute, NIH, and by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. She has served as a consultant on tobacco industry activities for the U.S. Department of Justice, the Centers for Disease Control Office on Smoking and Health, and the World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative. Dr. Malone was part of an international team that contributed to the WHO report on Tobacco Industry Interference with Tobacco Control, which was utilized for implementation efforts related to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Since 2009, she has served as editor-in-chief of the top international policy/population-focused journal in the tobacco field, Tobacco Control.
Southern Oregon College, Ashland, OR, 1977, A.S.(R.N.), Nursing
University of California, San Francisco, 1989, B.S., Highest Honors, Nursing
University of California, San Francisco, 1991, M.S., Community Health Nursing
University of California, San Francisco, 1995, Ph.D., Nursing
University of California, San Francisco, 1997, Postdoc, Health Policy
- McDaniel PA, Intinarelli G, & Malone RE. (2008). Tobacco industry issues management organizations: Creating a global corporate network to undermine public health. Globalization and Health, 4, 2. PMCID: PMC2265275
- 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. PMCID: PMC2789682
- 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. PMCID: PMC2377293
- McDaniel PA, & Malone RE. (2009). “Creating the desired mindset”: Philip Morris’s efforts to improve its corporate image among women. Women and Health, 49:441-474. PMCID: PMC2791497
- McDaniel PA, Malone RE (2009). Legitimizing disease promotion: The role of corporate credibility.American Journal of Public Health, 99(3):452-461.PMCID: PMC2642531
- McDaniel, PA, & Malone RE(2005). Understanding Philip Morris’s pursuit of U.S. government regulation of tobacco. Tobacco Control, 14:193-200. PMCID: PMC1343526
- McDaniel PA, Smith EA, & Malone RE. (2006). Philip Morris’s Project Sunrise: weakening tobacco control by working with it. Tobacco Control, 15: 215-223, 2006. PMCID: PMC2564663
- Wander, N., & Malone, R. E. (2006). Fiscal vs. social responsibility: How Philip Morris shaped the public funds divestment debate. Tobacco Control, 15, 231-241. PMCID: PMC2596576
- McDaniel PA, & Malone RE. (2007). “I always thought they were all pure tobacco”:American smokers’ perceptions of “natural” cigarettes and tobacco industry advertising strategies. Tobacco Control, 16:e7. PMCID: PMC2807204
- Apollonio, D. E., & Malone, R. E. (2008). Turning negative into positive: Public health mass media campaigns and negative advertising. Health Education Research 24(3):483-95. PMCID: PMC2682642
- 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. PMCID: PMC2794243
- Cataldo J, Malone RE (2008). False promises: The tobacco industry, low-tar cigarettes, and older smokers. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 56:1716-1723. PMCID: PMC2788397
- Apollonio DE, & Malone RE. (in press). The We Card program: Tobacco industry ‘youth smoking prevention’ as industry self-preservation. American Journal of Public Health 100(7).PMC Journal – In Process
- Tesler, L., & Malone RE (in press). ‘Our reach is wide by any corporate standard’: How the tobacco industry helped defeat the Clinton health plan, and why it matters now. American Journal of Public Health.PMC Journal – In Process
- Cataldo, J., Bero, L.A., & Malone, R. E. (in press). ‘A delicate diplomatic situation’: Tobacco industry efforts to gain control of the Framingham study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMC In Process