Associate Professor Lisa Whop

Associate Professor Lisa Whop is a Torres Strait Islander NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow and epidemiologist. She is Australia’s leading authority on cervical cancer control in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Her research focuses on cervical cancer control (screening and vaccination) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. She is Chief Investigator on the Centre for Research Excellence on Targeted Approaches To Improve Cancer Services (TACTICS) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians where she co-leads the Prevention and Screening stream. She is also the Principal Investigator on an ARC Discovery Indigenous grant focused on understanding the factors that influence uptake and completion of HPV vaccination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents.  She brings research experience working with First Nations people, creating meaningful ways of engagement and community empowerment. She has special interests in achieving equity by process and outcomes in epidemiology, vaccine preventable disease and translation of research into policy and practice.