Timothy Callaghan, PhD

Assistant Professor
Curriculum Vitae
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
- Rural Health Policy
- Insurance Coverage and Expansion
- Public Health Policy Attitudes
- Disability Policy
- 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.