Professor Julia BROTHERTON 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 cervical screening and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination since 2004 and has an international reputation in HPV vaccination and cervical cancer prevention research, policy and practice, with appointments to the WHO Director General’s Expert Advisory Group on Cervical Cancer Elimination, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Working Group for Handbook 18 on Cervical Screening, and as Co-Chair of the CHIC global HPV Vaccine Council. She is a chief investigator in the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cervical Cancer Control. Her current work is focused on achieving equity in the delivery and outcomes of strategies for scale up to support the WHO call to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem.
