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Building Commitment, Courage, and Resilience in Global Health
The GRIT Lab is a research collaborative focused on carrying out community-based public health research and service activities in low- and middle-income countries and providing training opportunities in research and program implementation to students ranging from high school through doctoral studies. Students engaged in the lab gain real world experience designing and implementing research studies in partnership with community partners, as well as facilitating community outreach and awareness raising programs.
GRIT Lab Research Priorities
To idenitfy facilitators and barriers to the implementation of evidence-based public health programs in low-resource environments
To investigate adolescent and young adult risk factors for preventable non-communicable disease and injuries.
To evaluate the impact of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) outcomes on local capacity, programs, and policy.
Dr. Heather Wipfli, PhD, Professor and Clark Leadership Chair in Global Health in the Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health at the University of Maryland, College Park. 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 as Director of Undergrduate Public and Gobal Health Programs at the University of Southern California (USC), 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).
Director of the GRIT Lab
