Mac McCullough
Biography
Mac McCullough's research involves quantifying investments in public health and social services and assessing how these investments are put to use in order to improve population health. He recently led the development of a new data source to track spending on health and social services at the local level and has used these data to explore how communities' spending can influence its health outcomes and rankings.
McCullough has served as health economist at the Maricopa County Department of Public Health since 2014. He is a member of the Arizona Public Health Association's Board of Directors. He was recently named as a '40 Under 40' honoree by the de Beaumont Foundation and was awarded the 2018-19 ASU Science of Health Care Delivery Educator of the Year award. He served as deputy director of the RWJF-funded National Safety Net Advancement Center from 2015-2020 and was chair of the AcademyHealth Public Health Systems Research interest group from 2017-2019. Prior to entering academia, he worked at the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of State.
Education
- Ph.D. Health Services, UCLA
- M.P.H. Public Health Policy, University of Minnesota
- B.S. Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Google Scholar
Research Activity
Selected current and recent extramural funding:
Principal Investigator
- Physicians' Use, Exchange, and Evaluation of Electronic Health Data. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services via AHCCCS (2019-2021)
- Investigating Waste in the U.S. Health Care System. Fielding Charitable Trust. (2018-2020)
- Economic Analyses to Promote Public Health Department Efficiency. Maricopa County Department of Public Health. (2017-2022)
- Connecting Local Governmental Finances to Local Health Outcomes in Texas. Texas Episcopal Health Foundation. (2017-2019)
- Integrating Spending Data into the County Health Rankings: Barriers, Solutions, and Implications for Rankings.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation via County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. (2017-2018) - County Health Rankings and Local Governmental Finances: Are Rankings Always Linked to Wealth. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation via County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. (2015-2016)
Co-Principal Investigator or Site PI
- Positioning the National Safety Net Advancement Center for Sustainability. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2017-2020)
- Analyzing state and local governmental health, public health, social and community service spending for system alignment to reduce health disparities. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation via Johns Hopkins University (2017-2019)
Co-Investigator
- Advanced Methods to Facilitate Goal Alignment and Goal Attainment Among Multisector Stakeholders. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2018-2020)
- Action Research Center for a Culture of Health: Financing and Service Delivery Integration. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2016-2018)
- Accelerating Payment and Care Delivery Reform in the Safety Net: The National Safety Net Payment and Service Delivery Reform Center. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2015-2017)
- Healthy Babies: Evaluation of State Policies to Limit Elective Induction of Labor. Medica Research Institute. (2014-2015)
- Health Information Exchange in Small Primary Care Practices: Understanding and Eliminating the Disparity. UCLA Clinical & Translational Science Institute (2013-2014)
Courses
| Spring 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HCD 501 | Biostatistics &Data Management |
| Fall 2020 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| HCD 303 | Global Health Care Systems |
| HCD 501 | Biostatistics &Data Management |
| Spring 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HCD 501 | Biostatistics &Data Management |
| HCD 527 | Healthcare Econ & Finance Mgmt |
| HCD 537 | Comparative Health Care System |
| HCD 567 | Curr Challnges Infectious Dis |
| Fall 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HCD 501 | Biostatistics &Data Management |
| HCD 517 | Economic Eval in Health Care |
| HCD 547 | Hlth Leadership Workforce Mgmt |
| HCD 557 | Clinical Governance Risk Mgmt |
| HCD 577 | Infection Prevention in Hlthcr |
| HCD 587 | Infectious Disease Intel |
| Spring 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HCD 501 | Biostatistics &Data Management |
| Fall 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HCD 400 | Interpreting Scientific Lit |
| HCD 501 | Biostatistics &Data Management |
| Spring 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HCD 501 | Biostatistics &Data Management |
| Fall 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HSC 420 | Eval Health Sci Res |
| HCD 493 | Honors Thesis |
| Spring 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HCD 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| HCD 493 | Honors Thesis |
| Fall 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HCD 300 | Biostatistics |
| PBH 300 | Biostatistics |
| HCD 501 | Health Stats Tools Health Env |