Alec Calac is a medical student at UC San Diego where he is also pursuing a PhD in the Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health (Global Health Track) at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science and School of Public Health at San Diego State University. He was previously in the inaugural health policy fellowship sponsored by the National Indian Health Board. He now works collaboratively with the Global Health Policy and Data Institute on research projects that synthesize public health, global health, social media, and health technology. 

His research and advising interests are in medical education and workforce development, tribal public health, vaccine hesitancy and misinformation spread, and social media utilization among Native youth. As the national president-elect of the Association of Native American Medical Students, he also works at the local, state, and federal level to identify barriers and facilitators to greater inclusion of Native Americans in medicine and the allied health professions.