Associate Director Professor Lisa Whop is a Gumulgal Wagadagam woman from Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait, born and raised on Bindal and Wulgurukaba Country in Townsville. She is Australia’s leading authority on cervical cancer control in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Based at Yardhura Walani at the Australian National University she leads the Cervical Cancer Elimination Team. Lisa is an Indigenist epidemiologist with experience in implementation health research to develop, inform and change public health policy, guidelines and practice. Lisa has extensive research experience in cancer control leading administrative linked data studies, qualitative studies and implementation trials. Lisa is the Chair of the Cancer Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership Committee on Cancer Control and member of the Cancer Expert Working Group for the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation.
