Wynne E. Norton, PhD

Wynne E. Norton, PhD, is a Program Director in the Tobacco Control Research Branch (TCRB) in the Behavioral Research Program (BRP) in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). She also serves on the Implementation Science (IS) team collaborating with colleagues on division, institute, and NIH-wide efforts to advance the science of implementation.

Dr. Norton’s research interests focus on advancing the science of implementation of evidence-based cancer control interventions. She is particularly interested in pragmatic trials of implementation strategies, de-implementation of ineffective cancer-related interventions, practices, and programs, and methodological and measurement issues in implementation science. Dr. Norton is the NCI lead and Administrative Program Director for the Scaling-up and Maintaining Evidence-based Interventions to Maximize Impact on Cancer (SUMMIT) Initiative, a collection of four UG3/UH3 research projects focused on improving tobacco use treatment for cancer survivors and increasing lung cancer screening for individuals at high risk for lung cancer. She is the NIH Representative for the Implementation Science Core for the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory and also contributes implementation science expertise to the Exercise and Nutrition Interventions to Improve Cancer Treatment-related Outcomes in cancer survivors. Dr. Norton serves as an NCI point-of-contact for the Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health notice of funding opportunity. Dr. Norton has served as faculty for the NCI Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation in Cancer and is currently a member of the DCCPS Clinical Trials Coordination Group. She also serves on the editorial board for the journal Implementation Science.

Prior to joining the NCI in 2015, Dr. Norton was an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Norton was a Fellow in the Implementation Research Institute (2010) and a Fellow in the Mixed Methods Research Training Program(2015). While in academia, her program of research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Norton received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Connecticut, with her dissertation funded by a F31 individual National Research Service Award grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. She received her BA in psychology with honors from the College of William and Mary.