Lisa Wigfall

Dr. Lisa T. Wigfall received her Ph.D. in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior from the University of South Carolina (USC) in 2009. Dr. Wigfall joined the Health and Kinesiology Department at Texas A&M University (TAMU) as an Assistant Professor in 2016. Dr. Wigfall teaches undergraduate courses in community and environmental health. She is developing a graduate community and public health course and made significant curriculum changes to a graduate health disparities course at USC. Dr. Wigfall has two funded lines of research - one that focuses on reducing HPV-related cancer health disparities among women living with HIV, and another that focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention among vulnerable populations. She has received almost $1.0 million dollars in external research funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH). Dr. Wigfall was a grant reviewer on two NIH study sections. She is the first or senior author on 57% of 21 peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Wigfall co-chaired one doctoral committee at USC and one undergraduate thesis committee at TAMU. She has served on five doctoral (two at TAMU), one masters thesis, and three masters non-thesis committees. Dr. Wigfall received an NIH Health Disparities Extramural Loan Repayment Award from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities in 2011.