Lisa Thompson

Lisa Thompson is a Professor at the University of California San Francisco, focusing on global environmental health and implementation science. Her work addresses household air pollution from cooking fires and plastic waste burning in low-resource countries, with an emphasis on health equity, women’s empowerment, and climate change. She holds a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley and has received awards such as the Henrik L. Blum Award and CTSI KL2 Career Development Award.

Thompson’s research, funded by NIH and the Gates Foundation, includes leading the HAPIN Trial (2017-2022) across four countries and the first NIEHS-funded implementation science study on plastic waste burning (2021-2026). Her work integrates frameworks like Michie’s COM-B model and the Behavior Change Wheel to address behavioral barriers to adopting cleaner technologies.

• 2023-2028: R01HL163256 on DNA Methylation and Respiratory Disease
• 2021-2026: R01ES032009 on Plastic Waste and Health
• 2016-2022: UM1HL134590 on Multi-Country LPG Interventions

Her scientific awards include recognition from the NIH, UCSF Global Health Sciences, and Guatemalan Ministry of Health. Thompson’s recent publications analyze health impacts of LPG interventions, exposure contrasts, and biomarker changes, with a focus on maternal-child health and epigenetics.