As CEO of the California Council on Science & Technology, Dr. McCall serves as the lead liaison to state and national leaders in policy, philanthropy, and science and technology related issues. As such, she is responsible for developing responsive programs and services to provide science, engineering, and technical advice to the State of California’s government—listening and engaging to advance CCST’s role as a thought leader in the science policy community. 

Dr. McCall also serves as CEO of the Journal of Science Policy & Governance, an international open-access publication, and as an Advisor and Co-Founder of TEDxFulbright. McCall previously served as Director of Precision Medicine at the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, where she oversaw cross-sector health policy working groups and projects, research grantmaking, and state government interagency efforts, including co-authoring the first-ever California Surgeon General’s Report and co-leading the development of a nationwide health innovation network for the new federal program, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), for which she was named 2023 Government Official of the Year by Biocom California. Previously, McCall worked at the California Senate Office of Research, taught graduate courses in science policy at two University of California campuses, co-founded the US-Japan Science Policy Fellowship, and spent 16 years in research labs, including as a Fulbright Fellow in Sweden.