Experts

James Gribble is vice president of International Programs and director of the BRIDGE project at the Population Reference Bureau. Before joining PRB, he worked for Constella Futures in Washington, D.C., where he led projects that focused on helping governments and institutions in developing countries improve their capacity to address reproductive and other health needs. He was program officer for a health project in Mozambique and has extensive experience in Latin America.

In addition to degrees in Spanish and public health, he holds a doctoral degree in demography from Harvard University and held a research and teaching position at Georgetown University. He has co-authored numerous publications on reproductive health, most recently “Reconsidering Childhood Undernutrition: Can Birth Spacing Make a Difference? An Analysis of the 2002-2003 El Salvador National Family Health Survey,” in Maternal and Child Nutrition (2008). He is a co-author of PRB's Family Planning Saves Lives.