Medical information publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced the appointment of Professor Ruth Malone as the new editor of the journal Tobacco Control. Malone is the first woman, and the first academic nurse, to edit the journal. She succeeds Professor Simon Chapman of the University of Sydney's School of Public Health and Community Medicine, who edited the journal for 10 years. Professor Chapman will continue to contribute to Tobacco Control by acting as commissioning editor for new journal content relating to tobacco control, advocacy, and policy in low and middle income countries.
Professor Malone is currently Director of the Health Policy Program and Vice Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, USA (UCSF). She has published widely in academic journals, and served as reviewer, editorial board member, and contributing editor across a range of titles.
Published bimonthly, Tobacco Control is an international peer review journal for health professionals and others in tobacco control. The journal was first launched in 1992 under the editorship of the late Dr Ron Davis, immediate past president of the American Medical Association. It seeks to study the nature and consequences of tobacco use worldwide; tobacco's effects on population health, the economy, the environment, and society; efforts to prevent and control the global tobacco epidemic through population level education and policy changes; the ethical dimensions of tobacco control policies; and the activities of the tobacco industry and its allies.
