Stella Aguinaga Bialous Is Running For The UICC Board of Directors

Stella Aguinaga Bialous, President of Tobacco Policy International, is running for the UICC Board of Directors.

Stella Aguinaga Bialous, RN, DrPH is Professor in Residence, Department of Social Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing.

Her research focuses on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, tobacco industry monitoring and building nurses’ capacity for tobacco control nationally and internationally.

Dr. Aguinaga Bialous has consulted with the World Health Organization’s Tobacco Free Initiative for over 15 years as well as the Secretariat of The Who FCTC.

She is 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.

Education

Stella Bialous began her academic journey by earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1985.

She continued her education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, obtaining a degree in Hospital Management in 1986.

Dr. Bialous then pursued advanced studies in nursing at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, where she earned her Master of Science (MS) in 1990.

Further expanding her expertise, she attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Master of Public Health (MPH) in 1994 and a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in 1999.

Awards and Honors

• Sybill G. Jacobson Adult Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Document.
• Distinguished Merit Award by International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care.
• World No Tobacco Day Award by WHO.
• Edge Runner for Tobacco Free Nurses by American Academy of Nursing.
• Heart Hero Award for World no Tobacco Day.

Interviews with Stella Aguinaga Bialous

In an interview with Relias Media, Stella Aguinaga Bialous said, “Like most smokers, the nurses we talk to want to quit. They wish they could quit, but it’s a powerful addiction, and it’s hard to quit.”

In another interview with UCSF, she said, “If 19 million nurses and midwives can get just one patient a year to quit, the impact will be tremendous.”