Dr. Stillman was responsible for implementing and evaluating the smoking ban at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine. This evaluation effort was one of the first efforts to demonstrate reduction in smoking consumption and prevalence as well as lowering secondhand smoke exposure. She also designed and implemented the Johns Hopkins Inpatient Smoking Cessation Service and developed and evaluated the Heart Body & Soul Spiritual Smoking Cessation Program. In addition, Dr. Stillman had a major role in helping to enact Baltimore City’s landmark restrictions on tobacco and alcohol billboards.

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2000 National Institute of Health Award of Merit, “ASSIST Evaluation Conceptual Framework and Evaluation Plan”.

1994 WHO World No-Tobacco Day Model Program,“The Johns Hopkins Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program”.

1992 Gold Award, The EDPRESS in Print Award, for medical materials: "Help Someone You Care About Quit Smoking for Good".

1991 Honorable Mention, American Medical Writer's Association for Achievement in Writing about Health in a Booklet "Quit Smoking for Good While You Are In the Hospital" and "Stay Quit for Good After You Leave the Hospital".

1991 First Place Paper Award: Association on Behavior Analysis, “Behavioral Evaluation of the Great American Smoke-Out in a Large Urban Hospital”.

1984-5 Dissertation Fellowship Award: National Institute of Justice, ”Survey of Survivors of Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty”.

Schmitt CL, Malarcher AM, Clark PI, Bombard JM, Strauss W, Stillman FA. Community Guide Recommendations and State-Level Tobacco-Control Programs: 1999 – 2004. Tob Control 2007; 16(5): 318-24.

Smith SY, Curbow B, Stillman FA. Harm Perception of Nicotine Products in College Freshmen. Nicotine Tob Res 2007; 9(9): 977-82.

Stillman F, Navas-Acien A, Ma J, Ma S, Avila-Tang E, Breysse P, Yang G, Samet J. Second-hand tobacco smoke in public places in urban and Second-hand tobacco smoke in public places in urban and rural China. Tob Control. 2007 Aug;16(4):229-34.

Stillman FA, Bone L, Avila-Tang E, Smith K, Yancey N, Street C, Owings K. Barriers to cessation in 18-24 year old inner city African-Americans. Am J Public Health 2007; 97(8): 1405-8.

Smith KC, Stillman FA, Bone L, Yancey N, Belin P, Price E. Bumming ‘loosies’ in Baltimore: The informal exchange of cigarettes in the community context. J Urban Health 2007; 84(4): 494-507.

Wipfli HL, Stillman FA. Reaching and educating the global tobacco control community: Innovative approaches to tobacco control training. Public Health Rep 2006;121(5):521-8.

Bialous SA, Mochizuki-Kobayashi Y, Stillman FA. Courtesy and the challenges of implementing smoke-free policies in Japan. Nicotine Tob Res 2006;8(2):203-16.

Stillman FA, Yang G, Figueiredo V, Hernandez-Avila M, Samet J. Building capacity for tobacco control research and policy. Tob Control 2006;15(Suppl 1):i18-23.

Stillman FA, Wipfli H. New century: same challenges. Br J Cancer 2005;92(7):1179-81.

Henningfield JE, Santora PB, Stillman FA, Exploitation by design-could tobacco industry documents guide more effective smoking prevention and cessation in women? Addiction 2005; 100:735-6.

Lando HA, Borrelli B, Klein LC, Waverley LP, Stillman FA, Kasel JD, Warner KE. The Landscape in global tobacco control research: a guide to gaining a foothold. Am J Public Health 2005;95:939-45.

Stillman FA, Wipfli H, Lando H, Leischow S, Samet J. Building Capacity for International Tobacco Control Research: The Global Tobacco Research Network. Am J Public Health 2005;95:965-8.

Wipfli H, Stillman FA, Tamplin S, Silva VL, Yach D, Samet J. Achieving the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s Potential By Investing in National Capacity. Tob Control 2004;13:433-7.

Navas-Acien A, Peruga A, Breysse P, Zavaleta A, Blanco-Marquizo A, Pitarque R, Acuna M, Jimenez-Reyes K, Colombo V, Gamarra G, Stillman FA, Samet J. Secondhand Tobacco Smoke in Public Places in Latin America, 2002-2003. JAMA 2004;291:2741-5.

Stillman F, Hartman A, Graubard B, Gilpin E, Murray D, Gibson J. Evaluation of the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (ASSIST): A Report of Outcomes. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003; 95(22): 1681-93.

Davis W, Graubard B, Hartman A, Stillman F. A descriptive approach to analysis of state-based intervention programs. Evaluation Review 2003; 27(5): 506-534.

Wewers M, Stillman F, Hartman A, Shopland D. Distribution of Smokers by Stages of Change: Results from the 1992-3, 1995-6, and 1998-1999 Current Population Survey. Preventive Medicine 2003; 36(6): 710-720.

Trochim W, Stillman FA, Clark P, Schmidt C. Development of a Model of the Tobacco Industry’s Interference with Tobacco Control Programs. Tobacco Control 2003; 12:140-147.

Chiriqui J, Frosh M, Fues L, el Arculi R, Stillman F. State laws on youth access to tobacco: an update, 1993-1999. Tobacco Control 2002; 11:163-166.

Stillman FA, Cronin KA, Evans WD, Ulasevich A. Can media advocacy influence newspaper coverage of tobacco: measuring effectiveness of the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study’s media advocacy strategies. Tobacco Control 2001; 10:137-144.

Gilpin EA, Stillman FA, Hartman A, Pierce JP. An index for state tobacco control initial outcomes. American Journal of Epidemiology 2000; 152(8):727-738.

Sciamanna CN, Stillman FA, Hoch JS, Butler KG, Gass KG, Ford DE. Opportunities for improving inpatient smoking cessation programs: a community hospital experience. Preventive Medicine 2000; 30:496-503.

Stillman F, Hartman A, Graubard B, et al. The American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (ASSIST): Conceptual framework and evaluation design. Evaluation Review 1999; 23(3): 259-280.