Meet the Provost

Neil J. MacKinnon, BSc (Pharm), MSc (Pharm), Ph.D., FCSHP, FNAP

Dr. Neil MacKinnon is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. In that capacity, he serves as the Chief Academic Officer of the university, overseeing its eleven colleges and schools, as well as AU online, enrollment and student affairs, institutional access, success, and belonging, institutional effectiveness, instruction and innovation, the libraries, and the research enterprise. 

Prior to his current position, he was Dean of the James L Winkle College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati. He was Director of the State Office of Rural Health for Arizona and a Professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. He was also Professor and Associate Director for Research at the College of Pharmacy at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

A native of Nova Scotia, Provost MacKinnon completed an undergraduate degree in pharmacy at Dalhousie University, a Master's degree in Hospital Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, an administrative hospital pharmacy residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and a PhD and a fellowship at the University of Florida. He completed a midcareer Harkness fellowship in international health care policy with the Commonwealth Fund under the direction of Dr. Stephen Soumerai, Professor at Harvard Medical School. He completed the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.