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Julianna Pacheco CV

Julianna Pacheco is professor of political science at the University of Iowa. She received a PhD in political science from Pennsylvania State University and postdoctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Michigan. She is currently a Carnegie Fellow 2024-2026 and part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program-Cohort 7.  Her research sits at the nexus of political science and population health. She was among the first to examine how health shapes political participation, most notably finding that poor health reduces turnout.  Pacheco subsequently documented the consequences of health-based inequalities in political voice, finding that the preferences of those in good health dominate the policy-making process. Her work has appeared in journal outlets such as the Journal of Politics, the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, the Political Research Quarterly, JAMA Health Forum, and more. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  She is currently working on a book looking at the role of physicians on the polarization of health.