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Media spokespeople

PapScreen Victoria has several experienced media spokespeople available for comment on the following issues, from both Victorian and national perspectives:

• Pap tests
  
  
• Screening rates
  
  
• New screening technologies
  
  
• HPV testing
  
  
• Cervical cancer
  
  
• The HPV or cervical cancer vaccine
  
  
• New research on the above

Please email PapScreen's Media and Communications Adviser to arrange comment.

Hiranthi Perera
Hiranthi is the Program Manager for PapScreen Victoria and has been with the program since 2007. Her areas of interest include working with women from culturally diverse communities and working with health professionals across the primary care sector. Hiranthi has significant experience in the community development sector, having previously worked with Primary Care Partnerships in Outer East Victoria.

Kate Broun
Kate has significant experience in cervical screening and women's health, and frequently leads Victorian activity on these issues. Kate is the Cancer Screening Manager at Cancer Council Victoria and has worked with PapScreen since 2002. Her areas of interest include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's health, and - with the advent of the HPV vaccine - vaccination to prevent cervical cancer.

Kylie Johnson
Kylie is the Aboriginal Education Program Coordinator at PapScreen Victoria, and is available for comment on cervical screening rates, and cervical cancer incidence and mortality in the Indigenous community.

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