Associate Professor Lisa Whop is a Gumulgal woman from the Wagadagam tribe of Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait and is Australia’s leading authority on cervical cancer control in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Lisa is an Indigenist epidemiologist with experience in implementation health research to develop, inform and change public health policy, guidelines and practice. She holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant and is the lead of the cervical cancer elimination team in the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research at the Australian National University. She is incoming Chair of the Cancer Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership Committee on Cancer Control.