Dr. Compton has over 25 years experience in designing, conducting and managing practical, usable, low-cost evaluations to meet the data accountability requirements of funders and organizations’ planning, policy making and management needs.  His background includes an earned doctorate from the University of Minnesota and extensive experience in education, public health and innovative programs in several human service systems.  He is the 2000 recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for outstanding contributions to evaluation practice, the 2000 Hamline University Making the World a Better Place Award and the 1993 and 1994 recipient of the Virginia Educational Research Association’s Annual Publications Award.  He is co-editor of a special supplement to Cancer Practice on the American Cancer Society’s Collaborative Evaluation Fellows Project, co-editor of a volume of New Directions for Evaluation on evaluation capacity building and co-author on many other evaluation articles and American Evaluation Association presentations.  He served as Director, Evaluation Services, National Home Office, American Cancer Society from 1995 through May 2003. He was a Research Health Analyst III at Research Triangle Institute from June 2003 – May 2004, when he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health, as a senior evaluator.