Heather Wipfli

Associate
Project Manager, Institute for Global Tobacco Control

Academic Degrees

PhD, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva,2007; MA, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, 2000; BA, Colgate University, 1998

School/Organization
Bloomberg School of Public Health

Department / Division
Epidemiology

Center and Institute Affiliations
Institute for Global Tobacco Control

Departmental Address
W6027 A

Email: hwipfli@jhsph.edu
Phone: (443) 287-0123
Fax: (410) 955-0863

Research and Professional Experience

• My research interest is in international cooperation and governance to improve health. Specifically, I have been involved in international efforts to control the use and spread of tobacco. Through the Institute for Global Tobacco Control I continue to focus on international training and research projects aimed at improving research capacity in developing countries.

Research Projects
Global Tobacco Research Network
The GTRN focuses on network theory and analysis methods that could lead to a better understanding of tobacco control networking by conducting network analysis through combining theories and approaches from the social, physical, and engineering sciences, with practical tobacco control capacity...

Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Bar and Nightclub Employees
The objective of this study is to assess exposure of bar and nightclub employees to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) in 23 countries throughout the world. For this project, which is just starting, we will sample 10 bars and up to 5 employees per bar in each country. SHS will be assessed using...



Selected Publications

• Yach D, Wipfli H. “A century of smoke” Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 2006, 100(3):1-15.
• Samet J, Wipfli H, Perez-Padilla R, Yach D. “Mexico and the tobacco industry: doing the wrong thing for the right reason?” BMJ, 2006 Feb 11; 332:353-354.
• Yach D, Wipfli H, Hammond R, Glantz S. (2006) “Globalization and Tobacco” in ed. Kawachi I and S. Wamala, Globalization and Health. London: Oxford University Press.
• Stillman F, Wipfli H, Lando H, Leischow S, Samet J. “Building capacity for international tobacco control research: the global tobacco research network” Am J Public Health, 2005 Jun; (95)6: 965-968.
• Wipfli H, Stillman F, Tamplin S, Samet J, Costa e Silva V, Yach D. “Enabling the FCTC by Investing in National Tobacco Control Capacity” Tob Control, 2004 Dec;13(4):433-7.
• Maziak W, Wipfli H. The Research Assistance Matching Program. Tob Control, 2005; 14:151.
• Mehl G, Wipfli H, Winch P. The Role of Communities in the Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Harvard International Review 27(1): [epub available at http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/1325/]
• Stillman F, Wipfli H. A Review on Tobacco and Public Health: Science and Policy. Br J Cancer. 2005 Apr 11;92(7):1339
• Stillman F, Wipfli H. New Century: Same Challenges. Br J Cancer. 2005 Apr 11;92(7):1179-81.
• Samet J, Wipfli H. A Review of Unfiltered. JAMA, 2005 Jan 12, 293(2): 239
• Bettcher D, Wipfli H. “Towards a more sustainable globalization: the role of the public health community” in J Epidemiol Community Health 2001; 55(9):617-618.
• Wipfli H, Bettcher D, Ouseph R. (2002) “Health Security” in Institutional Issues Involving Ethics and Justice. Oxford: EOLSS Publishers.
• Wipfli H, Bettcher D, Subramaniam C, Taylor, A. (2001) “Confronting the Tobacco Epidemic: Emerging Mechanisms of Global Governance” in McKee M, Garner P, Stott, R, International Co-operation and Health, London: Oxford University Press: 189-231

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