Ruth Malone - USA

Ruth Malone - USA

Ruth E. Malone 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, focused broadly on the public relations aspects of the tobacco epidemic, particularly the strategic activities of U.S.-based corporations to thwart public health efforts. She has also published studies examining the tobacco industry’s targeting of marginalized groups through both product advertising and corporate activities. 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 expert panel member on tobacco industry interference with tobacco control. She is incoming editor (from 2009) for the BMJ specialist journal Tobacco Control.

Competing Interests

Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?

a) Reimbursement for attending a symposium?
No.

b) A fee for speaking?
No.

c) A fee for organising education?
No.

d) Funds for research?
No.

e) Funds for a member of staff?
No.

f) Fees for consulting?
No.

Have you in the past five years been employed by any organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
No.
a) Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation?
Yes, in Philip Morris USA, PM International and Reynolds American Stock, held for research and advocacy purposes.

b) Do you have any other competing financial interests?
No.

c) I have no competing interests.



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