Daniela Rivas Romero

Daniela Rivas Romero serves as a Research Fellow at the Sydney School of Public Health within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Her work centers on evidence-based computational approaches to combat cervical cancer through HPV transmission modeling and policy intervention analysis.

Her research spans computational modelling, HPV transmission dynamics, cervical cancer progression, public health policy formulation, infectious disease modelling, and global health equity. She develops sophisticated mathematical frameworks to simulate disease trajectories and evaluate prevention strategies, with particular emphasis on resource-constrained settings in low- and lower-middle-income countries where cervical cancer burden is highest.

Dr. Rivas Romero has made significant contributions to high-impact global health initiatives including the Cervical Cancer Elimination Planning Tool (developed with IARC), modeling frameworks assessing therapeutic HPV vaccine impacts, and evidence generation supporting WHO and national elimination strategies. Her work directly informs policy decisions through quantitative analysis of health and economic outcomes across diverse epidemiological contexts.