John J. Callahan

 

John Callahan earned his Ph.D. in Social Science in 1971 from the Maxwell School of Public Administration at Syracuse University. He served as the assistant secretary for management and budget at the Department of Health and Human Services from 1995-2001, and also worked as the senior budget official, chief financial officer and chief information officer for HHS. Callahan served as acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration from March to September 1997 and as director of federal-state relations at the National Conference of State Legislatures from 1977 to 1979.

 

Previously, he served as executive director of the Legislator’s Education Action Project at N.C.S.L. from 1974 to 1977 and as a senior analyst at the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations between 1969 and 1971 and again from 1972 to 1974. At the University of Virginia, Callahan was an assistant professor of education and planning.

 

Callahan is the director of the Health Systems Management program at the University of Baltimore.