Michael E. Begay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Head, Department of Public Health
Telephone: 413-545-1203
Email: begay@schoolph.umass.edu
Campus Address: 309 Arnold House
Michael E. Begay is an Associate Professor of Public Health. He joined the School of Public Health and Health Sciences faculty in 1994. His research interests are primarily on the politics of public health. He has studied the development and implementation of tobacco control policies at the state and local levels in Massachusetts. 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. He had 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. His other areas of interest include interest group politics, politics of HIV/AIDS, American health politics, and comparative health politics. He has taught courses in Tobacco Control Policymaking in the United States, Politics of HIV/AIDS, Politics of Maternal and Child Health, Program Evaluation, State and Local Health Politics, Comparative Health Systems, and Introduction to Principles of Public Health Practice. He received his bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Philosophy from the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, and his Master's and doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He also completed postdoctoral health policy fellowships from the Pew Memorial Trusts and Agency for Health Care Policy and Research while at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.
Research and publications on the politics of state and local tobacco control. Other areas of interest include public policy making, policy analysis, policy implementation, interest group politics, state and local politics, budgetary politics, politics of AIDS, and public health politics and policy.
