Dr. Caroline A. Thompson is Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health and member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also a fellow appointed at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the Carolina Population Center. Dr. Thompson received her BA in biology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MPH and PhD in epidemiology from University of California Los Angeles, and she completed her postdoctoral training as an AcademyHealth Delivery Systems Science Fellow at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute. Dr. Thompson’s research program is dedicated to 1) identifying patterns of, and disparities in, healthcare delivery for the detection and treatment of cancer, 2) disentangling the drivers of cancer health disparities, and 3) creative, valid “re-use” of routine clinical and administrative data (electronic health records, medical claims, registries) to generate real world evidence about cancer epidemiology and cancer-related care delivery at the population level. She has authored over 65 peer-reviewed articles, and her research projects have received funding support from the National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.