Dr. Heather Wipfli, PhD, Professor of Population and Public Health

Sciences and International Relations and Member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, is the director of undergraduate programs in Health Promotion and Global Health at USC. Dr. Wipfli is a well-funded global health researcher with over two decades of experience implementing research and training programs throughout the world. Dr. Wipfli’s research focuses on preventing and controlling non-communicable diseases and injuries and promoting adolescent health in low- and middle-income countries through community-based programming and implementation science. Previously she served a the founding Associate Director of the USC Institute for Global Health (2008-2017), Project Director at the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2001-2008), and Technical Officer within the Tobacco Free Initiative at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland (1998-2001).