Ruth E. Malone is Professor Emerita (Recalled), Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco.  Since 2009, she has also served as editor-in-chief of the leading international tobacco control policy journal, Tobacco Control. She is internationally known for her research on the social, political and policy dynamics of tobacco control and her work has been funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Drug Abuse and California’s Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. Her writing and research for the last decade have focused on articulating and advancing the tobacco endgame. She has served as an expert consultant to the US Centers for Disease Control, the US Department of Justice, and WHO. 

Andrew Pipe, MD, was formerly Chief of the Division of Prevention and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Pipe continues his clinical and research activities within the Division. He received his MD from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1974.

Dr. Pipe is Canada’s foremost expert on smoking cessation. He was instrumental in the development of the widely adopted Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation at the Heart Institute.