Richard Callahan, Ph.D., is the associate dean and director of State Capital and Leadership Programs at SPPD. His current research includes networks and state agencies, leadership training practices, leadership in information technology for executives in state government, and the political design of public agencies. He has been published in the Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He received the Editor's Choice award for outstanding contributions in 2005 for his service on the editorial board of the academic journal: Public Administration Review.
Since 1998, he has directed the delivery of graduate degree programs in Sacramento, with 35 classes annually, as well as directing leadership training programs, designed and presented by USC, for: state government executives; newly elected local officials and staff; regional government; nonprofit and county health executives; county mental health executives; and legislative staff from across the United States.
He also teaches practices and applied theory in working with the private and public sectors for graduate students in the master degree programs of health, planning, public administration, and public policy.
Dr. Callahan serves on the editorial board of Public Administration Review, board of directors of Sacramento Healthcare Decisions; the American Congress of Health Care Executives, Sacramento Regent's Advisory Board; and the Executive Council of the Sacramento Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration.
Previously, he has more than 12 years of local government and county government experience, including five years as a township administrator for a $35 million annual operating budget. He has designed and implemented a range of new local government programs.
He has a B.A. degree, with honors in political theory, from Georgetown University and attended Tenri University in Japan. He has a master's degree and a doctorate in public administration from USC.
Since 1998, he has directed the delivery of graduate degree programs in Sacramento, with 35 classes annually, as well as directing leadership training programs, designed and presented by USC, for: state government executives; newly elected local officials and staff; regional government; nonprofit and county health executives; county mental health executives; and legislative staff from across the United States.
He also teaches practices and applied theory in working with the private and public sectors for graduate students in the master degree programs of health, planning, public administration, and public policy.
Dr. Callahan serves on the editorial board of Public Administration Review, board of directors of Sacramento Healthcare Decisions; the American Congress of Health Care Executives, Sacramento Regent's Advisory Board; and the Executive Council of the Sacramento Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration.
Previously, he has more than 12 years of local government and county government experience, including five years as a township administrator for a $35 million annual operating budget. He has designed and implemented a range of new local government programs.
He has a B.A. degree, with honors in political theory, from Georgetown University and attended Tenri University in Japan. He has a master's degree and a doctorate in public administration from USC.