Stella Aguinaga Bialous, RN, DrPH, FAAN

Associate Professor
University of California School of Nursing

Dr. Stella Aguinaga Bialous is a native of Brazil, where she received her undergraduate education in nursing. She has a Master’s degree in nursing from Johns Hopkins University and a Doctor of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley.  As the President of Tobacco Policy International, she consulted with many others in tobacco control policy and research. She is a senior consultant of the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative and for several other governmental and academic institutions. Dr. Bialous became an Associate Professor in Residence at the School of Nurisng, University of California San Francisco in 2014 and also President of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care (ISNCC). She is internationally recognized, and has published extensively as an expert on tobacco industry monitoring and has developed policies to address tobacco industry interference with public health. 

Dr. Bialous has been collaborator with Professor Linda Sarna at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Nursing for many years; together they have been involved in capacity building of nurses in tobacco control, and have published widely in the area of nurses and tobacco control.

Publications

2013

2012

  • Journal

    Sarna L, Bialous SA, Chan SS, Hollen P, O'Connell KA. (2013). Making a Difference: Nursing Scholarship and Leadership in Tobacco Control. Nursing Outlook. 2013 Jan-Feb;61(1):31-42. Epub 2012 Jul 20

    DOI:
    10.1016/j.outlook.2012.05.007
    PMID:
    22819635
  • Journal

    Aguinaga Bialous, S, Peeters, S. A Brief Overview of the Tobacco Industry in the Last 20 Years. Tobacco Control. 2012 Mar;21(2):92-4. 

    DOI:
    10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050395
    PMID:
    22345228
  • Journal

    Sarna L & Bialous SA (2012). A Review of Images of Nurses and Smoking on the Worldwide Web. Nursing Outlook. 2012 Sep-Oct;60(5 Suppl):S36-46.

    DOI:
    10.1002/nur.21476
    PMID:
    22492474
  • Journal

    Sarna L, Bialous SA, Nandy K, Yang Q. Are Quit Attempts Among U.S. Female Nurses Who Smoke Different from Female Smokers in the General Population? An analysis of the 2006/2007 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey. BMC Womens Health. 2012 Mar 19;12:4. 

    DOI:
    10.1186/1472-6874-12-4
    PMID:
    22429917
  • Journal

    Sarna L, Bialous SA, Ong MK, Wells M & Kotlerman J (2012). Increasing Nursing Referral to Telephone Quitlines for Smoking Cessation Using a Web-based Program. Nursing Research.. 2012 Nov-Dec;61(6):433-40. 

    DOI:
    10.1097/NNR.0b013e3182707237
    PMID:
    23073265

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