- Best Practices in Global Health Practicums: Recommendations from the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (12/8/2017) - by Mellissa Withers, Mu Li, Giselle Manalo, Senice So, Heather Wipfli, Hoon Eng Khoo, Joseph Tsung-Shu Wu and Hsien-Ho Lin, published in Journal of Community Health
- A new vision for global health leadership (11/30/2017) - by Michele Barry, Zohray Talib, Zohray Talib, Ashley Jowell, Kelly Thompson, Cheryl Moyer, Heidi Larson, Katherine Burke and the Steering Committee of the Women Leaders in Global Health Conference, published in The Lancet.
- Barriers to Reconstructive Surgery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study of 453 Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Patients in Vietnam (11/7/2016) - Wipfli, Yao, Swanson, Chanson, Taro, Gura, Figueiredo, Hatcher, Vanderburg, Magee; Published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Three Eras in Global Tobacco Control: How Global Governance Processes Influenced Online Tobacco Control Networking (10/16/2016) - Online networks can serve as a platform to diffuse policy innovations and enhance global health governance. This study, published Oct. 16 in Global Health Governance, focuses on how shifts in global health governance may influence related online networks.
- Defining tobacco regulatory science competencies (7/18/2016) - In 2013, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration funded a network of 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) with a mission that included research and training. A cross-TCORS Panel was established to define tobacco regulatory science (TRS) competencies to help harmonize and guide their emerging educational programs. Heather Wipfli…
- Training the Next Generation of Global Health Experts: Experiences and Recommendations From Pacific Rim Universities (6/23/2016) - A study published in Globalization and Health June 23, 2016, found growing demand for global health across the Pacific Rim and suggests universities increase educational and training opportunities in this field.
- The Tsao Fellowship in Global Health: A Model for International Fellowships in a Surgery Residency (4/25/2016) - National surveys have found that North American surgical residents have significant interest in international training. While global health training opportunities exist, less than a third of these are housed within surgical residency programs; even fewer are designed specifically for plastic surgery residents.
- One Hundred Years in the Making: The Global Tobacco Epidemic (4/25/2016) - By H. Wipfli and J. Samet, published in Annual Reviews.
- Banning the Hiring of Tobacco Users: Where’s the Fire? (6/1/2014) - By Jonathan M. Samet, Heather L. Wipfli, and Sofia Gruskin, published in Academic Medicine.
- The Global Tobacco Epidemic and the Law (1/1/2014) - By Heather Wipfli published by Edward Elgar Publishing
- Secondhand Tobacco Smoke: An Occupational Hazard for Smoking and Non-Smoking Bar and Nightclub Employees (9/22/2013) - By Miranda R Jones, Heather Wipfli, Shahid Sharer, Erika Avila-Tang, Jonathan M Samet, Patrick N Bresse, Ana Navas-Acien published in Tobacco Control.
- A Century of Smoke (7/18/2013) - By D. Yach & H. Wipfli published by Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology.
- The Tobacco Atlas, Fourth Edition (11/6/2012) - By Heather Wipfli published by American Journal of Epidemiology.
- Moving beyond global tobacco control to global disease control (12/14/2011) - Tobacco Control, an international peer review journal, published an editorial written by USC Institute for Global Health directors Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli Dec. 14, 2011. The article,“Moving beyond global tobacco control to global disease control,” draws parallels between the global tobacco control movement and the increasing effort to control non-communicable diseases. Read the article » Details: Authors:…
- World No Tobacco Day 2011: India’s progress in implementing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (5/11/2011) - By Heather L. Wipfli, and Jonathan M. Samet published in Indian Journal of Medicine.
- Second-hand smoke’s worldwide disease toll (11/26/2010) - By Samet JM, Wipfli H published by The Lancet.
- Global Tobacco Control Diffusion: The Case of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (7/1/2010) - By Heather Wipfli published in American Public Health Association.
- Globe still in grip of addiction (2/25/2010) - This publication co-authored by USC Institute for Global Health Director Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli investigate legislation banning smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants since it has helped to reduce tobacco use in many high-income countries. Read the article » Details: Authors: Samet JM,& Heather L. Wipfli Published By: Nature Date: February 25, 2010 Publication Link: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7284/full/4631020a.html
- Global Economic and Health Benefits of Tobacco Control: Part 2 (9/1/2009) - By Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli published by Wiley Online Library.
- Unfinished Business in Tobacco Control (8/12/2009) - This publication co-authored by USC Institute for Global Health Director Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli investigate the prevalence of smoking has been halved from its peak and the majority of Americans work and live in smoke-free environments. Progress has also been made elsewhere, but in many low- and middle-income countries, prevalence of tobacco use continues…
- Global Economic and Health Benefits of Tobacco Control: Part 1 (6/17/2009) - By Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli published by Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
- Method validation for measurement of hair nicotine level in nonsmokers. (3/23/2009) - By Kim SR, Wipfli H, Avila-Tang E, Samet JM, Bresse PN published by Biomedical Chromatography.
- Building tobacco control training capacity in India (1/1/2009) - By Heather Wipfli published by WEB Online Public Access Catalogue.
- Laws that ban smoking in indoor places in Mexico (1/1/2008) - By Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli published by SciElo Public Health.
- Exposure to secondhand smoke at home and in public places in Syria: a developing country’s perspective (9/10/2007) - By Heather Wipfli published by Taylor & Francis Group.
- Exposure to secondhand smoke at home and in public places in Syria: a developing country’s perspective (7/30/2007) - By Maziak W, Ali RA, Fouad MF, Rastam S, Wipfli H, Travers MJ, Ward KD, Eisenberg T published by American Journal of Public Health.
- Power of the process: Evaluating the impact of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control negotiations (5/1/2007) - By Heather Wipfli published by Health Policy Journal.
- Secondhand smoke exposure among women and children: evidence from 31 countries (2/28/2007) - By Heather Wipfli published by American Public Health Association.
- The Bloomberg Global Initiative to reduce tobacco use (1/1/2007) - By Heather Wipfli and Jonathan Samet published in Salud Publica de Mexico.
- Reaching and Educating the Global Tobacco Control Community: Innovative Approaches to Tobacco Control Training (9/1/2006) - By Heather Wipfli and Jonathan Samet published by Public Health Reports.
- Research Assistance Matching (RAM) Project (6/14/2005) - By Heather Wipfli published in Tobacco Control.
- Building Capacity for International Tobacco Control Research: The Global Tobacco Research Network (6/6/2005) - By Frances A. Stillman, EdD, EdM, Heather L. Wipfli, MA, Harry A. Lando, PhD, Scott Leischow, PhD, and Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS published by American Journal of Public Health.
- New century: same challenges (4/11/2005) - By Heather Wipfli published by the British Journal of Cancer.
- Tobacco: science, policy, and public health (4/5/2005) - By Heather Wipfli published in British Journal of Cancer.
- A review on tobacco and public health: science and policy (4/5/2005) - By F A Stallman and H Wipfli published by British Journal of Cancer.
- Achieving the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s potential by investing in national capacity (12/13/2004) - By Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli published by Tobacco Control.
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