James Macinko

Professor; Associate Dean for Research
Department: School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences, Health Policy and Management
650 Charles E. Young Dr. South
16-035 Center for Health Sciences
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Tel: 310-825-1674
jmacinko@g.ucla.edu
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Keywords: Public Health, Brazil

James Macinko is Professor of Health Policy and Management and Community Health Sciences. He is a health services researcher specializing in global health and health policy analysis. Main areas of research include assessing the impact of health reforms and policy changes, developing tools to evaluate health system performance, and exploring the role of health policies and services in the production and potential reduction of health inequities.

Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA in 2015, Dr. Macinko was Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Policy at New York University and former director of the NYU MPH program. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania from 2006 to 2008 and a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil in 2002.

Macinko’s publications have appeared in The Lancet, the American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, the Milbank Quarterly, Health Services Research, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the American Journal of Epidemiology, and others. His work has received support from many institutions, including the NIH (National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Child Health and Development, Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Pan American Health Organization, the World Bank, and the government of Brazil’s Ministry of Health.