Emmanuel Thompson

Emmanuel Thompson serves as Professor and Actuarial Science Coordinator in the Department of Mathematics at Southeast Missouri State University, located in Johnson Hall 311. His contact details include phone (573) 651-2721 and email ethompson@semo.edu.

Dr. Thompson's research integrates Actuarial Science with Public Health through advanced statistical modeling. His primary interests include healthcare cost estimation in fragile states, risk modeling for insurance claims, and analysis of socioeconomic determinants in health disparities—particularly regarding breast cancer diagnosis stages across racial, economic, and geographic lines. Methodologically, he specializes in regularization techniques, elastic net-risk measures, and bootstrap ranking models.

His 2016-2020 publications reveal a consistent focus on applying quantitative risk assessment to public health challenges. Key themes include the impact of income stratification on healthcare indicators, rural-urban disparities in cancer outcomes, and correlated claim processes in actuarial risk modeling. This interdisciplinary work bridges theoretical statistics with real-world health policy applications, especially in vulnerable populations.