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Overview

Ruth E. Malone is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine with a focus on tobacco control and public health. Their research spans several subfields, including Physiology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics of Ruth E. Malone's work include Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Health Policy Implementation Science, Pharmaceutical Industry and Healthcare, and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

Recent papers by Ruth E. Malone encompass a range of tobacco-control related issues and public health policy analysis. Notable publications include:

  • Tobacco industry and public health responses to state and local efforts to end tobacco sales from 1969-2020, 2020, published in PLoS ONE
  • Ignoring our elders: tobacco control's forgotten health equity issue, 2021, published in Tobacco Control
  • Thoughts on neologisms and pleonasm in scientific discourse and tobacco control, 2021, published in Tobacco Control
  • New policy of people-first language to replace 'smoker', 'vaper' 'tobacco user' and other behaviour-based labels, 2023, published in Tobacco Control
  • Retailer experiences with tobacco sales bans: lessons from two early adopter jurisdictions, 2023, published in Tobacco Control

The majority of Ruth E. Malone's publications have appeared in the journal Tobacco Control, accounting for 19 contributions. Other publication venues include PLoS ONE, Journal of Public Health Policy, BMJ, and Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy.

Collaborations play a significant role in Malone's research, with frequent co-authors including Patricia A. McDaniel, Elizabeth A. Smith, Lisa Henriksen, Sarah Durkin, and Joanna E Cohen. These partnerships have resulted in multiple joint publications, highlighting a network of researchers working on tobacco control and public health issues.

Best Publications

  • Tobacco industry documents: treasure trove or quagmire?

    Ruth E Malone;Edith D Balbach

  • Racialized Geography, Corporate Activity, and Health Disparities: Tobacco Industry Targeting of Inner Cities

    Valerie B Yerger;Jennifer Przewoznik;Ruth E Malone

  • The tobacco endgame: a qualitative review and synthesis

    Patricia A McDaniel;Elizabeth A Smith;Ruth E Malone

  • Marketing to the marginalised: tobacco industry targeting of the homeless and mentally ill

    Dorie Apollonio;Ruth E Malone

  • The outing of Philip Morris: advertising tobacco to gay men.

    Elizabeth A. Smith;Ruth E. Malone

  • Tobacco industry denormalisation as a tobacco control intervention: a review

    Ruth E Malone;Quinn Grundy;Lisa A Bero

  • Heavy users of emergency services: social construction of a policy problem.

    Ruth E. Malone

  • African American leadership groups: smoking with the enemy

    V B Yerger;R E Malone

  • Corporate Philanthropy, Lobbying, and Public Health Policy

    Laura E. Tesler;Ruth E. Malone

  • Tobacco industry issues management organizations: Creating a global corporate network to undermine public health

    Patricia A McDaniel;Gina Intinarelli;Ruth E Malone

  • Whither the Almshouse? Overutilization and the Role of the Emergency Department

    Ruth E. Malone

  • “If You Know You Exist, It’s Just Marketing Poison”: Meanings of Tobacco Industry Targeting in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community

    Elizabeth A. Smith;Katherine Thomson;Naphtali Offen;Ruth E. Malone

  • “It’s Like Tuskegee in Reverse”: A Case Study of Ethical Tensions in Institutional Review Board Review of Community-Based Participatory Research

    Ruth E. Malone;Valerie B. Yerger;Carol McGruder;Erika Froelicher

  • Science in the News:: Journalists' Constructions of Passive Smoking as a Social Problem

    Ruth E. Malone;Elizabeth Boyd;Lisa A. Bero

  • Philip Morris's Project Sunrise : weakening tobacco control by working with it

    Patricia McDaniel;E A Smith;R E Malone

  • Cigar risk perceptions in focus groups of urban African American youth.

    Ruth E. Malone;Valerie Yerger;Charles Pearson

  • “Everywhere the Soldier Will Be”: Wartime Tobacco Promotion in the US Military

    Elizabeth A. Smith;Ruth E. Malone

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  • Almost ‘like family’: Emergency nurses and ‘frequent flyers’

    Ruth E. Malone

  • Children's Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Private Homes and Cars: An Ethical Analysis

    Jill A. Jarvie;Ruth E. Malone

  • How the health belief model helps the tobacco industry: individuals, choice, and “information”

    Edith D Balbach;Elizabeth A Smith;Ruth E Malone

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa Bero
Lisa Bero University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Patricia Benner
Patricia Benner University of California, San Francisco
Simon Chapman
Simon Chapman University of Sydney
Kenneth E. Warner
Kenneth E. Warner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Charlene Harrington
Charlene Harrington University of California, San Francisco
Lisa Henriksen
Lisa Henriksen Stanford University
Anna B Gilmore
Anna B Gilmore University of Bath
Janet Hoek
Janet Hoek University of Otago
Catherine A. Chesla
Catherine A. Chesla University of California, San Francisco

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