Michael Begay Appointed Public Health Department Chair

 

Michael E. Begay was elected chair of the Department of Public Health beginning September, 2007. Dr. Begay is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Division of Community Health Studies, and had been serving as Acting Chair of the Department for the previous six months. He received his doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr. Begay’s research interests address American health politics, including the development and implementation of tobacco control policies at the state and local levels in Massachusetts and California, interest group politics, politics of HIV/AIDS, and comparative health politics. He has had several papers published in Journal of the American Medical Association, International Journal of Tobacco Control, and the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Begay has received research funding from the California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program, Association of Schools of Public Health, American Cancer Society, and National Institutes of Health.