Rate My Professor Lisa Whop

Associate Professor Lisa Whop is a Wagadagam Gumulgal Torres Strait Islander Indigenist epidemiologist affiliated with the Australian National University College of Health & Medicine. She serves as Associate Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and as Associate Director of Research and Senior Fellow at Yardhura Walani, the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research. Whop holds a Bachelor of Medical Science from Queensland University of Technology, a Master of Applied Epidemiology from the Australian National University, and a PhD in Epidemiology from Charles Darwin University. As an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow, she is recognized as Australia’s leading authority on cervical cancer control among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

Her research program emphasizes cervical cancer prevention via screening and vaccination targeted at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, alongside interests in lung cancer screening, equity-focused epidemiology with record linkage, and translation of research into policy and practice. Whop is Chief Investigator on the Centre for Research Excellence in Targeted Approaches to Improve Cancer Services (TACTICS) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, where she co-leads the Prevention and Screening stream, and Principal Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous grant investigating modifiable factors influencing HPV vaccination uptake and completion among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents. Key publications include “The first comprehensive report on Indigenous Australian women's inequalities in cervical screening: A retrospective, population-based registry cohort study” (The Lancet Public Health, 2016), “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's views of cervical screening by self-collection: a qualitative study” (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2022), and contributions to the “2021 Cervical Cancer Elimination Progress Report.” She has received honors from the Public Health Association of Australia (2023) and national recognition from the Lowitja Institute (2025) for her cervical cancer elimination work.