NYU Wagner

James Macinko is Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at NYU Steinhardt School of Education. Dr. Macinko was formerly a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil and continues to serve as an advisor to the Brazilian Ministry of Health. His field experience includes evaluation of microenterprise development programs in Africa and Latin America, provision of technical assistance in primary healthcare reform with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Pan American Health Organization in the Dominican Republic and Brazil, 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 developing advocacy materials for community clinics serving the Latino Community of Washington, DC.