Esther Roura holds a Statistics degree (Polytechnic University of Catalonia-UPC, 2005), a Master of Public Health (Pompeu Fabra University-UPF, 2009) and a PhD in Medicine and Translational Research (University of Barcelona-UB, 2018).

In 2005 she joined the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program (PREC) at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) as biostatistician. Since then, she has coordinated six phase-II and phase-III clinical trials of the bivalent, quadrivalent and polyvalent HPV vaccines. She has also performed statistical analyses of two epidemiological studies conducted in Spain on HPV-related diseases: HPV infection, cervical cancer screening and sexual behaviour indicators in the general female population (AFRODITA study), and HPV prevalence and predictors of HPV infection in a population of women undergoing routine cervical cancer screening (CLEOPATRE study). She has also worked in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) Cervix study as principal coordinator and in charge of statistical analyses and final publications, evaluating the associations between several risk factors and cervical cancer risk.

She is currently a member of UNIC-I&I team at PREC, where she participates in the evaluation and monitoring of the impact of the HPV vaccination program in Catalonia using the Information System of Primary Care Services (SISAP), as well as in the evaluation of the opportunistic cervical cancer screening program in Catalonia using the Information System for Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP). She is also producing global estimates on cervical cancer screening coverage worldwide in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).

She is author or co-author of 15 peer-reviewed scientific publications with impact factor, and she has presented results and scientific communications at 16 national and international conferences. She is a member of CIBERESP, a network of 50 multidisciplinary research groups from different universities and institutions focused in the area of epidemiology and public health.