Associate ProfessorMegan Smith
Principal Research Fellow
Faculty of Medicine and Health
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- Principal Research FellowFaculty of Medicine and Health
Research projects & supervision summary
- Australian Government Department of Health. Safety Monitoring for the National Cervical Screening Program. (2019-2022; 2024-2026)
- Department of Health and Social Care (UK). Human papillomavirus (HPV) screening in vaccinated populations: a clinical and cost-effectiveness model (2023-2026)
- Department of Health and Social Care (UK). HPV self-sampling cost-effectiveness model. (2024-2026)
- NHMRC Fellowship: Optimising and Successfully Implementing Cervical Cancer Prevention Policies (2019-2022)
- Cancer Institute NSW Fellowship (top-up): Optimising and Successfully Implementing Cervical Cancer Prevention Policies (2019-2021)
- NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cervical Cancer Control (C4)
- NHMRC grant:“It’s a gamechanger” –HPV self-collection to improve equity and participation in Australia's National Cervical Screening Program (2022-2024)
- Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer. Modelling to project Victorian screening volumes. (2023-2024)
- Cancer Council Australia. National Cervical Screening Program: Guidelines for the management of screen-detected abnormalities, screening in specific populations and investigation of abnormal vaginal bleeding (2025 update). (2022-2024)
- NHMRC project grant: HPV and oropharyngeal cancer in Indigenous Australians (2017-2021).
- NCSP independent monitoring group and modelling for the New Zealand NCSP (New Zealand Ministry of Health contract: 2010-2026).
- US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant: Comparative modelling to inform cervical cancer control policies - CISNET Cervix (2020-2024)
- Compass trial
- COVID and Cancer Global Modelling Consortium (CCGMC): working group 2 (screening)
- STakeholders Opinions of Renewal Implementation and Experiences Study (STORIES)
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCervical Cancer Screening in Women with Down Syndrome
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCervical screening in women with Down syndrome
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCompass Long Term Outcomes: A randomised controlled trial of primary HPV vs. cytology screening for cervical cancer in Australia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExploring the implementation of innovative cervical screening models using HPV self-collection in the NCSP
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMaximising benefits and minimising harms with cervical cancer prevention in Australia: understanding cervical screening participation inequities and impacts on adverse pregnancy outcomes
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMaximising benefits and minimising harms with cervical cancer prevention in Australia: understanding cervical screening participation inequities and impacts on adverse pregnancy outcomes
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe impact of individual and environmental factors on participation in the Renewed Australian National Cervical Screening Program