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Name: Edith Balbach
Title: Senior Lecturer, Community Health
Departmental Affiliation: Community Health Program
Degrees: PhD, Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley
Expertise: Tobacco Policy, Medical Marijuana, U.S. Drug Policy
Major Awards: Professor of the Year, 2003
Faculty/Staff Multicultural Award, 2003
Lerman-Neubauer Prize for University Teaching and Advising, 2004
E-mail: edith.balbach@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Selected recent publications:

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 cmmittee,” American Journal of Public Health 95.

Pan, Jocelyn, Elizabeth M. Barbeau, Charles Levenstein, and Edith D. Balbach, “Flight Attendants and Smokefree Air,” American Journal of Public Health 95: 398-404.

Barbeau, Elizabeth M., Andrea Leavy-Sperounis, and Edith D. Balbach (2003), “Smoking, Social Class, and Gender: What can Public Health Learn from the Tobacco Industry about Disparities in Smoking?,” Tobacco Control 13: 115-120.

Balbach, Edith D., Rebecca Gasior, and Elizabeth Barbeau (2003), “RJ Reynolds’ Targeting of African-Americans: 1988-2000,” American Journal of Public Health 93(5): 822-827.

Balbach, Edith D., Rebecca Gasior, and Elizabeth Barbeau,(2002), “Tobacco Industry Documents: Comparing Depository and Internet Searching. Tobacco Control 11: 68-72.

Balbach, Edith D., Michael P. Traynor, and Stanton A. Glantz, (2000),“The Implementation of California’s Tobacco Tax Initiative: The Critical Role of Outsider Strategies in Protecting Proposition 99,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 25(4): 689-716.

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