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Timothy Callaghan, PhD

Timothy Callaghan
Timothy Callaghan , PhD

Assistant Professor

PhD Program Co-Chair

Curriculum Vitae

CV (PDF)

Contact

Health Policy and Management
212 Adriance Lab Rd.
1266 TAMU
College Station , TX 77843-1266
callaghan@tamu.edu
Phone: 979.436.0960

Education and Training

  • University of Minnesota, PhD, Political Science, 2016
  • University of Minnesota, MA, Political Science, 2014
  • University of Connecticut, BS, Biological Sciences, 2011
  • University of Connecticut, BA, Political Science, 2011

Research Interests

  • Health Politics
  • Vaccine Hesitancy
  • Rural Health
  • Public Health Policy Attitudes
  • Survey Design
  • State Politics and Policy

Teaching Interests

  • Health Politics
  • Health Policy Analysis
  • Research Methods

Representative Publications

  • Motta, Matthew and Timothy Callaghan. Forthcoming (Available Online). “The Pervasiveness and Consequences of Medical Folk Wisdom in the United States.” Scientific Reports.
  • Haeder, Simon, Steven Sylvester, and Timothy Callaghan. Forthcoming. “Lingering Legacies: Public Attitudes About Medicaid Beneficiaries and Work Requirements.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
  • Callaghan, Timothy, Andrew Karch, and Mary Kroeger. Forthcoming (Available Online).   “Model State Legislation and Intergovernmental Tensions over the Affordable Care Act, Common Core, and the Second Amendment.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
  • Callaghan, Timothy and Steven Sylvester. Forthcoming (Available Online). “Private Citizens as Policy Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Autism Mandates and Parental Political Mobilization.” Policy Studies Journal.
  • Callaghan, Timothy, Alva Ferdinand, Marvellous Akinlotan, Samuel Towne, and Jane Bolin. 2020. “The Changing Landscape of Diabetes Mortality in the United States across Region and Rurality, 1999-2016.” The Journal of Rural Health. 36 (3): 410-415.
  • Yaemsiri, Sirin, Johanna Alfier, Ernest Moy, Lauren Rossen, Brigham Bastian, Jane Bolin, Alva Ferdinand, Timothy Callaghan, and Melonie Heron. 2019. “Healthy People 2020: Rural Areas Lag in Achieving Targets for Major Causes of Death.” Health Affairs. 38 (12), 2027-2031.
  • Callaghan, Timothy, Matthew Motta, Steven Sylvester, Kristin Lunz-Trujillo, and Christine Blackburn. 2019. “Parent Psychology and the Decision to Delay Childhood Vaccination.” Social Science and Medicine. 238, 112407.
  • Callaghan, Timothy, David Washburn, Katharine Nimmons, Delia Duchicela, Anoop Gurram, and James Burdine. 2019. “Immigrant Health Access in Texas: Policy, Rhetoric, and Fear in the Trump Era.” BMC Health Services Research. 19 (1): 342.
  • Motta, Matthew, Timothy Callaghan, and Steven Sylvester. 2018.  “Knowing Less but Presuming More: Dunning-Kruger Effects and the Endorsement of Anti-Vaccine Policy Attitudes.” Social Science and Medicine. 211, 274-281.
  •  Callaghan, Timothy and Lawrence Jacobs. 2016. “Interest Group Conflict over Medicaid Expansion: The Surprising Impact of Public Advocates” The American Journal of Public Health, 106 (2), 308-313.