Dr. Malone's work examines how health policy problems and trends are constructed, maintained, and changed, the roles of media and industry, and the ethical dimensions of health policy issues. Her current research focuses primarily on tobacco control policy and the public relations aspects of public health, especially as these pertain to marginalized populations and the "corporate social responsibility" practices associated with globalization of the tobacco disease epidemic. Her current grants are funded by the National Cancer Institute and the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. She is nationally and internationally known for her work on the tobacco industry, which has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Tobacco Control, and many other professional and scholarly journals.
She teaches courses in health policy theory, tobacco control policy and policy communications and leadership and serves as director of the h ealth policy specialty program in the UCSF School of Nursing.
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