American Studies Faculty and Staff

Edith Balbach

Position	Senior Lecturer, Director of the Community Health Program
Office location	112 Packard Ave.
Office hours
Email	edith.balbach@tufts.edu
Phone	617-627-2517
Education	PhD, Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley Master's in Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley Bachelor's in Journalisma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Personal Statement	"I'm interested in how communities identify and solve health problems. "Communities" in this context refers to geographically-based entities as well as communities created through shared interests or experiences or through commonalities based on race or ethnicity. Because my academic background is in public policy, I have a particular interest in how public policy intiatives help or hinder the health-related efforts of communities. Most of my own research is on drug issues, especially smoking."
Select Publications	Tobacco War (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000), co-authored with Stanton Glantz Balbach, Edith D., Elizabeth A. Smith, Ruth E. Malone (2006), “How the Health Belief Model helps the tobacco industry: Individuals, choice, and information,” Tobacco Control. Balbach, Edith D., Abby Herzberg, and Elizabeth M. Barbeau (2006), “Political Coalitions and Working Women: How the Tobacco Industry Built a Relationship with the Coalition of Labor Union Women,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60 (Supplement II): ii27-ii32. Balbach, Edith D., Elizabeth M. Barbeau, Viola Manteufel, and Jocelyn Pan (2005), “Political coalitions for mutual advantage: The case of the tobacco industry’s labor management committee,” American Journal of Public Health 95(6): 985 - 993 Pan, Jocelyn, Elizabeth M. Barbeau, Charles Levenstein, and Edith D. Balbach (2005), “Flight Attendants and Smokefree Air,” American Journal of Public Health 95(3): 398-404.
Courses Taught	Community Health 1 - Introduction to Community Health Community Health 185 - Community Health and Drugs
Grants & Awards	Recipient, Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Distinguished Teaching and Advising 2003 Recipient, Faculty/Staff Multicultural Award 2003 Selected by Tufts Community Union as “Professor of the Year”