Dr. Sharon Hanley is a cancer epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Health Medicine at Hokkaido University, Japan. She obtained her PhD. from the Departments of Public Health and Reproductive Endocrinology and Oncology at the same university. She also holds an adjunct position in Hokkaido University Center for Environmental and Health Sciences. Sharon’s research interests include correlates of HPV vaccine acceptance in parents of Japanese girls, attitudes to HPV self-sampling in cervical cancer screening non-attenders and comparative research on cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination programmes in the UK, Japan and Australia. She is the principal researcher of two grants from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS); one focusing on cancer education for primary and middle school children and the other looking at using HPV self-sampling to both increase cervical cancer screening uptake in young Japanese woman and evaluate the efficacy of the national Japanese HPV vaccination programme. As well as having an MA (Hons) in Modern Languages from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, she is also undertaking an MPH at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, focusing her research on health promotion and vaccine confidence.