About the Authors

Michaela T. Hall

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

michaela.hall@nswcc.org.au

Affiliations School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, Australia, Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW, Woolloomooloo, Australia

Megan A. Smith

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW, Woolloomooloo, Australia, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Kate T. Simms

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW, Woolloomooloo, Australia, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Ruanne V. Barnabas

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Karen Canfell

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW, Woolloomooloo, Australia, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

John M. Murray

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, Australia

Competing Interests

KC is a co-PI of an investigator-initiated trial of primary HPV screening in Australia (‘Compass’) which is conducted and funded by the VCS Foundation, a government-funded health promotion charity, which has received a funding contribution from Roche Molecular Systems and Roche Tissue Diagnostics, AZ, USA. Neither KC nor her institution on her behalf have received funding from industry for this or any other project. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.