Cristin Kearns

Biographic Data

ID7703150
NAMECristin Kearns
GIVEN NAMESCristin
FAMILY NAMEKearns
SIGNATUREKEARNS C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, San Francisco
ORCID0000-0001-6885-2304
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Use of a Critical Constructivist, Community-Engaged Approach to Understand Commercial Determinants of Breast Cancer

    Open AccessCristin KearnsARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    In the digital age, online industry documents have become an available and abundant source to inform qualitative health research on the commercial determinants of health (CDOH), including how corporations shape knowledge, policy, and public perception to protect business interests. This paper introduces the situational scoping method, a rigorous and transparent qualitative approach rooted in critical constructivism designed to conduct an overview…

  • Tobacco industry influence on breast cancer research, policy and public opinion

    Eileen Le Han, Eric Crosbie et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2025

    The CTR and TI Records are a rich source of documents related to tobacco industry efforts to influence breast cancer research, policy and public opinion away from any aetiologic relationship between tobacco use and breast cancer

  • Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism

    Gary Sinclair, Cristin Kearns et al.ARTICLEJournalism Studies2025Cited by: 1References: 39

    This article generates new insights into the changing profession of journalism. Empirically, we present the findings of 21 interviews with journalists working in the Irish and UK sports beats on their experiences of online abuse. Conceptually, we address the under-theorising of emotions in journalism by extending the utility and entanglement of emotion work and emotional labour. In doing so, we posit future lines of theoretical enquiry about indi…

  • Ending the neglect of global oral health

    Open AccessRonald G Watts, Richard G Watt et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

  • Oral diseases

    Open AccessMarco A Peres, L M D Macpherson et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

    Oral diseases are among the most prevalent diseases globally and have serious health and economic burdens, greatly reducing quality of life for those affected. The most prevalent and consequential oral diseases globally are dental caries (tooth decay), periodontal disease, tooth loss, and cancers of the lips and oral cavity. In this first of two papers in a Series on oral health, we describe the scope of the global oral disease epidemic, its orig…

  • In defense of sugar

    Open AccessCristin Kearns, Stanton A Glantz et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Corporate apologia theory provides an accessible way of understanding sugar industry crisis communication strategies. It enables public health actors to recognize and predict industry corporate apologia in response to ongoing product safety and social legitimacy challenges. Industry counterarguments can be examined for truthfulness and sincerity (or the lack thereof), and explained to policymakers considering sugar restriction policies, and to th…

  • Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research

    Cristin Kearns, Cristin E Kearns et al.ARTICLEJAMA Internal Medicine2016

    Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk of sugar (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s. We examined Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) internal documents, historical reports, and statements relevant to early debates about the dietary causes of CHD and assembled findings chronologically into a narrative case study. The SRF sponsored its first CHD research project in 1965, a literature review published in the New England Journal of Med…