Katrien Vanthomme

Supervisor

Department of Public Health and Primary Care

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Katrien Vanthomme obtained a PhD in Social Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2017) and a master in sociology (Ghent University, 2008). She is an Assistant Professor Epidemiology and Prevention of Cancer within the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Ghent University. In this position, she is developing a research line on social inequalities in care throughout the cancer continuum and the development of tailored interventions according to the principles of proportionate universalism.

Katrien is, amongst others, co-promotor of a project on the implementation of community health workers as a strategy to increase breast cancer screening participation among underscreened women in Flanders; a project on social inequalities in untimely follow-up of abnormal pap smears; a project studying disparities in the use of preventive health services across migrant backgrounds in Belgium; and a project on social inequalities in HPV vaccination in adolescents.

Email: katrien.vanthomme@ugent.be

Phone: +3293320425

Research themes:

Health, health care and psychosocial well-being