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James Macinko is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Department of Health Policy Management at UCLA. He is a health services researcher specializing in global health and health policy analysis. His 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 in service production with the potential to reduce health inequities. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, he was an Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Policy at New York University, where he also served as the director of the NYU MPH program. Macinko has received funding from several prominent institutions, including the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and his work has been recognized in leading health policy journals such as The Lancet and the American Journal of Public Health. His research interests focus on health inequalities and the social determinants of health in Latin America, particularly in Brazil.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.