She is also the Associate Director of the USC Institute for Global Health. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Wipfli directed research and training for the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and also worked as a technical officer at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on the development of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Dr. Wipfli received her doctorate in international relations from the Graduate Institute for International Studies at the University of Geneva and was awarded the Alumni Laureate Award in 2007. Her work focuses on global tobacco control, policy diffusion, health security, capacity building in developing countries, and globalization.