Professor Julia BROTHERTON (B Med (Hons), MPH (Hons), Grad Dip App Epi, FAFPHM, GACD, PhD) is a Professor of Cancer Prevention Policy and Implementation, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at The University of Melbourne and a Professorial Fellow at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance. She is a public health physician and epidemiologist, who has worked in HPV vaccination and cervical screening since 2004 and has an international reputation in cervical cancer control, having been appointed as a member of the WHO Director General’s Cervical Cancer Elimination Advisory Group and IARC’s Handbook on Cervical Cancer Screening Working Group. Her research has informed evidence-based policy supporting the implementation and evaluation of HPV vaccination and HPV based cervical screening programs in Australia and globally. Her world first research on early impact of HPV vaccine on HPV prevalence and cervical pre-cancer supported national introductions of HPV vaccine, with her ongoing work contributing to the evidence which supported the WHO recommendation to endorse a single dose HPV vaccine schedule. She holds an NHMRC Fellowship evaluating single dose HPV vaccination and co-leads two annual HPV reports: Australia’s Annual Progress Report on Cervical Cancer Elimination and the National HPV surveillance report.
