Title(s): Associate Professor
Department: Epidemiology
Office: S453 CPHB
Phone: (319) 384-1564
Courses Taught
- Public Health Surveillance Mechanisms, Applications and Data
- Survey Design and Analysis
- Cancer Epidemiology
Research Interests
- Cancer surveillance and epidemiology
- Addressing disparities in access to, and quality of, cancer care across populations
Background
Affiliations
- Director and Principal Investigator of the State Health Registry of Iowa/Iowa Cancer Registry
- Co-Leader, Cancer Epidemiology and Population Science Program, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
- President, Iowa Cancer Consortium
- Co-Investigator, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network
In the News
- Media roundup: 2023 Cancer in Iowa report
- Data for decades: Iowa Cancer Registry celebrates 50 years and profound impact
- Researchers complete cancer cluster investigation
- Charlton discusses cancer cluster investigation
- Charlton named Iowa Cancer Consortium board president
- Charlton discusses cancer in Iowa’s Black population
- Charlton receives Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Award
- CPH researchers receive DEI Supplemental Award
- ‘Cancer in Iowa’ report urges return to screening after COVID-19 put it on pause
- Charlton discusses the quality of cancer care in rural areas
- COVID-19 slows progress toward ending cancer disparities
- Addressing Health Disparities and Biases in AI and Machine Learning Tools
- Charlton to lead study aimed at improving quality of rural cancer care
- State Health Registry of Iowa issues Cancer in Iowa 2021 report, highlights racial disparities
- Grant examines impact of COVID-19 on cancer-related behaviors
- Iowa selected for national project to improve ovarian cancer care
- Rural Iowans are less likely to receive guideline-recommended cancer care
- Rural patients face challenges accessing high-quality cancer care
- Video: Tracking cancer in Iowa
- 2019 Cancer in Iowa report highlights HPV-related cancers
- Tune in to 2019 Cancer in Iowa discussion on IPR March 5
- Improving Rural Cancer Care
- New grant supports cancer prevention and control in rural Iowa
- Iowa Health by the Numbers
- Iowa Cancer Report focuses on liver cancer
- New Policy Fellows will boost public health research, policy
- Charlton, Hamann, Ryckman named IIPHRP Policy Fellows
- UI takes part in cancer ‘moonshot’ summit
- 2016 Cancer in Iowa report issued
- Rural cancer patients face more challenges than urban patients