Associate professor Jessica Howell is a consultant gastroenterologist and principal research fellow at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne/University of Melbourne and head of the Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer research group, Burnet Institute. She is also chair of the Gastroenterology Society of Australia (GESA), Liver Faculty. She has a strong research focus in liver cancer and viral hepatitis, specifically public health/epidemiology, clinical trials, and novel diagnostics development.