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Research Links for Ellen Hahn Ellen Hahn received her undergraduate degree in nursing from
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve
University. She earned a Master of Arts in Health Education from
The Ohio State University and a Master of Science in community
health nursing from Indiana University. In 1992, she completed a
doctorate in health policy/health of the community with a minor in
substance abuse and the family at Indiana University School of
Nursing.
Hahn is a professor in the College of Nursing and
College of Public Health at UK. She also is
a faculty associate at the UK Prevention Research Center, an
associate at the UK Center for Health Services Management and
Research and a faculty member of the UK Markey Cancer
Center.
Hahn was awarded a fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse
Program (2000-2003). The fellowship was used to enhance her
tobacco policy research skills. Hahn and colleagues have studied
Kentucky legislators’ views on tobacco (American Journal of
Preventive Medicine, February 1999; Tobacco Control,
Summer 1999); the fit between public opinion and legislators’
views on tobacco (Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association,
February 2000); regional differences in legislators' views on
tobacco policy (Southern Medical Journal, 2002); and
predictors of voting on tobacco control legislation in Kentucky.
Hahn is the program evaluator for the Kentucky Tobacco Use
Prevention and Cessation Program funded by the Centers for Disease
Control. In collaboration with the state program, she also has
completed a study of smoking cessation in drug treatment
facilities in Kentucky (Journal of Addictive Diseases,
December 1999). She directs the
Kentucky
Center for Smoke-Free Policy, created in 2004 with funding
from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Center continues to
receive funding from other agencies, including Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
and the Humana Foundation. In recognition of her leadership in the area of
smoking policy research, she was awarded the 2004 John D. Slade,
M.D., Memorial Advocacy Award from the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other
Drugs section of the American Public Health Association. In 2006,
the Kentucky Nurses Association Board of Directors named her the
Nurse Researcher of the Year, and the University of Kentucky
recognized her efforts to promote the health of Kentuckians with
the William E. Lyons Award for Outstanding Service.
Her research on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention
with young children and families has been reported in a variety of
journals including the Journal of Drug Education, Journal of
School Health, American Journal of Health Behavior, Education, and
Promotion, Public Health Nursing, and Nursing Research.
In 2000, Hahn was appointed to the Kentucky Governor's Council
Expert Panel on Youth Substance Abuse Prevention. In 1999, she
received the D. Jean Wood Award for Nursing Scholarship from the
Southern Nursing Research Society, and in 1998, she received the
Sara C. Stice Award for outstanding contribution in the field of
health education from the Kentucky Public Health Association. |
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Recent Publications
York, N.L., Hahn, E.J., Rayens,
M.K., & Talbert, J. (In press). Community readiness for
local smoke-free policy change. American Journal of
Health Promotion.
Rayens, M.K., Hahn, E.J., Langley,
R., Hedgecock, S., Butler, K., & Maggio, L. (In press).
Public opinion and smoke-free laws. Policy, Politics
& Nursing Practice.
Rayens, M.K., Hahn, E.J., &
Hedgecock, S. (In press). Readiness to quit smoking in
rural communities. Issues in Mental Health Nursing.
Thompson, E., Hahn, E.J.,
Blomquist, G., Garen, J., Mullineaux, D., Ogunro, N., &
Rayens, M.K. (In press). Smoke-free laws and employee
turnover. Contemporary Economic Policy.
Lee, K., Hahn, E.J., Okoli, C.T.C.,
Repace, J., & Troutman, A. (In press). Differential
impact of smoke-free laws on indoor air quality. Journal
of Environmental Health.
Hahn, E.J., Riker, C.A., Butler,
K., Cavendish, S., Lewis, P., Maggio Greathouse, L.W.,
Nunley, V. (2007). Enforcement of tobacco Purchase, Use,
and Possession laws in four Kentucky communities.
Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice, 8(2),
140-147.
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