Lecturer and Internship Instructor for Health: Science Society and Policy (HSSP)
tmackie@brandeis.edu
Heller
157
781-736-2852
Courses
- HSSP 89a - Internship and Analysis
Scholarship
- Mackie, Thomas Ives. "The Health Maintenance Organization: From Solution to Social Problem." Society for the Study of Social Problems. Boston, MA. August 1, 2008.
Profile
Mr. Mackie is the Internship Instructor with the Health: Science, Society, and Policy Program at Brandeis University. He holds a Master's degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and Master of Arts in Social Policy from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. As a joint-doctoral student in social policy and sociology, Mr. Mackie was a Grant Burton Fellow in Disability Studies at the Institute for Children, Youth, and Family Policy, and an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Fellow at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Brandeis University.
Mr. Mackie is an experienced public health practitioner, and health services researcher. Before coming to Brandeis University, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the Kananelo School for the Deaf in Lesotho, Southern Africa. During this time, he worked with the local community to build institutional capacity, to develop health education campaigns, and to improve the pedagogy at the school. Mr. Mackie also directed eight public health programs as Boston Site Director of Project HEALTH, a national service organization that leverages the talent of college students to connect low-income patients at inner-city hospitals with resources that they need to be healthy, and, in doing so, intends to create a next generation of leaders dedicated to tackling the country’s greatest health challenges.
Mr. Mackie was also a Research Assistant at the Health and Disability Working Group at Boston University School of Public Health. Drawing from both quantitative and qualitative methods, he participated in HRSA-funded research projects that investigated topics such as predictors for retention in care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), and evaluation of peer support programs for PLWHA. Currently, his research focuses on the organization, delivery, and financing of healthcare to children with involvement in state child welfare systems, and the delivery of psychotropic medications to this population.
Mr. Mackie's educational activities emphasize an experiential learning pedagogy. He teaches Internship & Analysis to undergraduates in the Health: Science, Society, and Policy Program. For five years, he has taught a module on program development and management at the Summer Institute on International Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, drawing from the Problem Solving for Better Health (TM) methodology.
Degrees
Boston University
M.P.H.
Wesleyan University
B.A.