Associate Professor of Public Policy
Core Faculty Member, UNC Center For Bioethics
Core Faculty Member, UNC Philosophy, Politics, & Economics Program
Abernethy Hall, 217
919.962.1600
dmackay@email.unc.edu

Douglas MacKay holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the Department of Public Policy on July 1, 2013, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. He is a Canadian citizen and grew up in northern British Columbia.

MacKay’s research and teaching interests concern questions at the intersection of justice and public policy. He is currently working on projects concerning the nature of health equity, the ethics of public policy research, and the ethical dimensions of policy analysis.