Faculty & Staff

Sheryl Burt Ruzek, PhD, MPH
Professor

Dr. Ruzek has written and edited numerous books and articles on women's health issues. Women's Health: Complexities and Differences (with Virginia Olesen and Adele Clarke) was published by the Ohio State University Press in 1997. Recent articles include "The Women Health Movement in the US: From Grass-roots Activism to Professional Agendas" (with Julie Becker); "Rethinking Feminist Ideologies and Actions: Thoughts on the Past and Future of Health Reform" and "Demographic Changes That Impact on Women's Health Over the Life Phases." Currently, she is involved in a US AID funded project to develop public health infrastructure for primary care systems in Kiev, the Ukraine and research on risk communication related to controversial medical technologies. She has been a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) and is a trustee of ECRI, the WHO Collaborating Center and AHRQ Evidence-Based Practice Center in Plymouth Meeting. She has served as a consultant to the FDA and many national and state health organizations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California. Dr. Ruzek received the University's Great Teacher Award and served as Acting Dean of the Graduate School from 2000-2002.

Education:

University of California, Davis, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley, MPH

Concentration:

Women's maternal-child health
Epidemiology and public policy
Risk communication in technology assessment

Publications 1999-2004

Katz, ML, SB Ruzek, S Miller, P Legos, "Gender differences in patients needs and concerns undergoing diagnostic tests for possible cancer ." Jouma1 of Cancer Education (in press) Fal12004.

Ruzek, SB. Invited Commentary .How Might the Women's Health Movement Shape National Agendas on Women and Aging? Women's Health Issues 14:1124,2004.

Ma, GX, S Shive, y Tan and SB Ruzek, "Development and Implementation of Health Surveys in Asian American Communities: An Example of Research on Smoking Behaviors and Perceived Cancer Risks," California Journal of Health Promotion 1(3): 135-148,2003.

Ruzek, SB, "Into Our Own Hands. The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990," by Sandra Morgen. Journal of  the American Medical Association, 289 (22) pp. 3015-3016, 2003.

Ruzek, SB, "Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas. American, Scandinavian, and Russian Women Physicians," by Elianne Riska. Journal of Health Politics, Policies and Law, 28 (4) pp 755-759, 2003.

Katz, ML, K smith-Whitley, SB Ruzek and K Ohene-Frempong, "Knowledge 0f Stroke Risk, Signs of Stroke, and Need for Stroke Education Among Children with Sickle Cell Disease and Their Caregivers," 7:2 pp. 115-123 Ethnicity and Health, 2002.

Bass, sB, SB Ruzek, L Fleisher and N McKeown-Conn, "Relationships among Internet health information use, patient behavior and self-efficacy in newly diagnosed cancer patients who contact the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Atlantic Region CIS," Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Jouma1 260-264 ,2002.

Ruzek, SB and J Becker, "The Women's Health Movement in the US: From Grass-roots Activism to Professional Agendas," Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 54:1 pp. 4-8,40,1999.