Dr. Wheeler is the Director of the Office of Public Health Practice at the School of Public Health, University of South Carolina. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, she worked for over twenty years in chronic disease prevention and health promotion programs at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. As a long-time consultant with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she also has experience in public health policy development at the national level. Dr. Wheeler has published research on the epidemiology of chronic diseases and related risk factors, as well as community-based public health interventions to address those problems in South Carolina. Her professional interests include policy and environmental interventions for chronic disease prevention and health promotion, translating research into public health practice, and minority health.