Associate Professor Emma Allanson is a consultant gynaecological oncologist with a full time public appointment at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, Western Australia. She has academic appointments at the University of Western Australia and the University of Notre Dame. Emma has a Masters in Public Health and a PhD in global women’s health. In addition to having lived and worked in South Africa in 2014, Emma worked as a consultant in 2015 in Geneva for WHO in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR), and has undertaken a research fellowship in the global prevention of cervical cancer with Dr Kathleen Schmeler at MD Anderson Cancer Centre (Houston, Texas) in 2020. Emma's current research activity includes work with colleagues in Vanuatu on cervical cancer screening and with colleagues across Africa and the USA assessing available cervical cancer treatment in Africa. Emma is a member of the ANZGOG cervical cancer working group.