Associate Professor Carolyn Nickson is an epidemiologist specialising in the evaluation of cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment. She heads the Breast Cancer Policy and Evaluation stream at the Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between the University of Sydney and Cancer Council NSW, with her team located in Sydney and Melbourne.

Key areas of her research include clinical and health economics modeling of breast cancer control strategies, clinical studies of breast imaging technologies, policy review, and development, and using risk information to help optimize population cancer screening programs.