Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health

James Macinko

Associate Professor of Public Health

Phone: 212-998-5592
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James Macinko is associate professor of public health in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and currently serves as the director of the NYU global Master's program in Public Health. Dr. Macinko was formerly a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil.  His field experience includes evaluation of primary health care programs and policies in Latin America and the Caribbean; assessment of microenterprise development programs in Africa and Latin America; assisting the US Agency for International Development and the World Health Organization to develop indicators for assessing infectious disease prevention and control programs in Sub-Saharan Africa; coordinating election monitoring in Ethiopia; and working with the Latino communities in Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York City to identify and eliminate barriers to primary health care.


Presentations

  • Third International Conference on Primary Health Care 2007 (Recife, Brazil)
    Plenary presentation "Avoidable hospitalizations and primary care in Brazil."
  • World Federation of Public Health Associations 2006 (Rio de Janeiro)
    Panel presentation: “The impact of primary care reforms on infant mortality in Brazil”
  • AcademyHealth Annual Meeting, 2005 (Boston, MA).
    Panel presentation: “Equity-enhancing health policies and services: Experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean”
  • American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2004 (Chicago, IL)
    Panel presentation “Wage inequality and infant mortality in OECD countries”
  • AcademyHealth Annual Meeting, 2004 (San Diego, CA)
    Poster, “Evaluation of the Organization of the Primary Care Services in Petrópolis, Brazil”
  • VI Congresso Brasileiro De Epidemiologia, 2004 (Recife, Brazil)
    Presentation, “Avaliação de Desempenho de Serviços de Saúde: Uma Análise Do Pacto Da Atenção Básica”
  • APHA annual conference 2003 (San Francisco, CA).
    Panel presentation “Primary care, social inequalities and infant mortality in the United States” (L. Shi presenter).
  • APHA annual conference 2003 (San Francisco, CA).
    Poster, “Primary care, wage inequalities and infant mortality in OECD countries, 1970-1996”
  • AcademyHealth annual conference 2003 (Nashville, TN).
    Presentation, “Primary care in the municipality of Petrópolis: A methodological test”
  • Brazilian Public Health Association Annual Meeting 2003 (Brasilia, Brazil).
    Panel presentation “A new methodology for rapid assessment of primary care organization and performance in Petropolis, Brazil”

Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University 2002
    Health and Social Policy
  • M.A. George Washington University 1993
    International Health and Development
  • B.S. University of Arizona 1990
    Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • B.A. University of Arizona 1990
    Comparative Religious Studies

Research Interests

  • Primary health care
  • Global health
  • Health services research
  • Social epidemiology

Awards

  • 2006 : Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar
  • 2001 : Fulbright Scholar/Brazil

Publications

  • Black, J. & J. Macinko. (2008). Neighborhoods and obesity: A review. Nutrition Reviews 66(1):1-19. (link)
  • Macinko, J. Souza, M. F., Guanais, F. C. Simões. (2007). Going to Scale with Community-Based Primary Care: An Analysis of the Family Health Program and Infant Mortality in Brazil, 1999-2004. Social Science & Medicine 65(10):2070-80. (link)
  • Macinko, J. Starfield, B. L. Shi. (2007). Primary Care Physician Supply and Health Outcomes in the United States: a Meta-analysis. International Journal of Health Services 31(1): 111-26. (link)
  • Souza, M.F., Macinko, J. et al (2007). Reductions in firearm-related mortality and hospitalizations in Brazil following gun control. Health Affairs 26(2):575-84. (link)
  • Macinko, J. Montenegro, H. Nebot, C., et al. (2007). La renovación de la atención primaria de salud en las Américas [Renewing Primary Health Care in the Americas]. Rev Panam Salud Publica/Pan Am J Public Health 21(2/3): 73-84. (link)
  • Macinko, J. & C. Almeida,(2007). A rapid appraisal methodology for monitoring and evaluating the organization and performance of primary care at the local level[in Portuguese]. Brasília: Pan American Health Organization, Office of Technical Cooperation in Brazil. (link)
  • Macinko, J., Montenegro, H. and C. Nebot. (2007). Renewing Primary Health Care in the Americas: A Position Paper of the Pan American Health Organization. Washington, DC: PAHO/WHO. (link)
  • Macinko, J. Almeida, C. de Sá, P. (2007). A Rapid Assessment Methodology for the Evaluation of Primary Care Organization and Performance in Brazil. Health Policy & Planning 22(3):167-77. (link)
  • Macinko, J. Guanais, F. & F. Souza. (2006). An Evaluation of the Impact of the Family Health Program on Infant Mortality in Brazil, 1990-2002. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60:13-19. (link)
  • Starfield, B., Shi, L., Grover,A., Macinko, J. (2005). The effects of specialist supply on population health: assessing the evidence. Health Affairs W(5): 97-107. (link)
  • Shi, L., Macinko, J. Starfield, B. Politzer, & J. Xu. (2005). Primary care, race and mortality in the United States. Social Science & Medicine 61(1):65-75. (link)
  • Starfield, B. Shi, L. & J. Macinko. (2005). Primary care impact on health outcomes: A literature review. Milbank Quarterly 83(3): 457-502. (link)
  • Macinko, J., Shi, L., and B. Starfield. (2004). Wage inequality, health care, and infant mortality in 19 industrialized countries. Social Science & Medicine 58(2): 279-292. (link)
  • Shi, L., Macinko, J. Starfield, B. Politzer, R. Wulu, J. & J. Xu. (2004) Primary Care, Social Inequalities, and All-Cause, Heart Disease, and Cancer Mortality in U.S. Counties, 1990. American Journal of Public Health (forthcoming). (link)
  • Shi, L. Macinko, J. Starfied, B. (2004). Primary care, social inequalities, and birth outcomes in U.S. states (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 58(5):374-80).
  • Macinko, J., Almeida, C., & E. Oliveira. (2003). Avaliação das características organizacionais dos serviços de atenção básica em Petrópolis: teste de uma metodologia [Evaluation of primary care service organization in Petrópolis: a methodological test]. Saude & Debate 65(27):243-256.
  • Shi L, Macinko J, Starfield B, Wulu J, Regan J, Politzer R.(2003). The relationship between primary care, income inequality, and mortality in US States, 1980-1995. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice Sep-Oct;16 (5):412-22.
  • Macinko, J., Shi, L., Starfield, B., and J. Wulu. (2003). Income inequality, primary care, and health outcomes–a critical review of the literature. Medical Care Research and Review 60(4):407-52.
  • Rodriguez-Garcia, R. and J. Macinko. (1994). The Role of NGOs in Community Health and Development. Promotion and Prevention, December 1994: 5-10.
  • Shi, L., Macinko, J., Starfield, B. and R. Politzer. (2003). Primary care, social inequality, and stroke mortality in U.S. states--a longitudinal analysis, 1985-1995. Stroke 34(8): 1958-64.
  • Macinko, J., Starfield, B. and L. Shi. (2003) The contribution of primary care systems to health outcomes in OECD countries, 1970-1998. Health Services Research 38 (3): 819-854.
  • Macinko, J. and B. Starfield (2002). Annotated bibliography on equity in health. Intl J of Equity in Health 1(1): 1-20.
  • Macinko, J. and B. Starfield. (2001). The utility of social capital in studies on health determinants. Milbank Quarterly 79 (3): 387-428.
  • Rodriguez-Garcia, R., Macinko, J., and W. Waters. (2001). Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. (link)
  • Rodriguez-Garcia, R., Macinko, J., and J. Casas. (Eds.) (1998). From Humanitarian Assistance to Human Development. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization/WHO.

Editorial Boards

Guest Editor, Journal of Ambulatory Care management, Special Edition on Innovations in Primary Health care in latin America and the Caribbean, 2008