Rate My Professor Lisa Whop

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.