Mac McCullough is Professor and Associate Director for Community Engagement and Impact at the School of Public and Population Health at Boise State University in Idaho. Mac’s research centers on the structures, financing, and impacts of organizations promoting population health. He developed a novel dataset to measure local governmental investments in health and social services, enabling long-term tracking of how spending and health change over time. He is the co-chair of the National Academy of Medicine’s Healthcare Cost Expenditure Collaborative. He previously served as the Health Economist for the Maricopa County Department of Public Health in Arizona, where he worked directly with public health professionals to perform economic analyses of public health programs, policies, and systems in the nation’s fourth largest local health jurisdiction. Mac also served as the Deputy Director of the RWJF-funded National Safety Net Advancement Center, chair of AcademyHealth’s public health systems research interest group, and tenured faculty at Arizona State University. Prior to academia he worked at the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. Department of State. He completed his PhD in health services at UCLA, his MPH at the University of Minnesota, and his BS at Georgetown University.

Mac McCullough is a past-grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.