James Trussell

Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs;
Director, Office of Population Research;
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

James Trussell is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and Director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 scientific publications, primarily in the areas of reproductive health and demographic methodology. His recent research has been focused in three areas: emergency contraception, contraceptive failure, and the cost-effectiveness of contraception. He has actively promoted making emergency contraception more widely available as an important step in helping women reduce their risk of unintended pregnancy; in addition to his research on this topic, he maintains an emergency contraception website (not-2-late.com) and designed and launched a toll-free emergency contraception hotline (1-888-NOT-2-LATE). Dr. Trussell received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Davidson College in 1971, a B.Phil. in economics from Oxford University in 1973, and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1975. He is a senior fellow at the Guttmacher Institute and a member of the board of directors of the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation and the Society of Family Planning. He serves on the editorial advisory committees of Contraception and Contraceptive Technology Update. Recent publications include:

Rates of serious infection after changes in regimens for medical abortion, with Mary Fjerstad, Irving Sivin, E. Steve Lichtenberg, and Vanessa Cullins. New England Journal of Medicine 361(2):145-151, July 9, 2009

Cost-effectiveness of contraceptives in the United States, with Anjana M. Lalla, Quan V. Doan, Eileen Reyes, Lionel Pinto, and Joseph Gricar. Contraception 79(1):5-14, January 2009.

Much ado about little: obesity, combined hormonal contraceptive use, and venous thrombosis, with Katherine A. Guthrie and Eleanor Bimla Schwarz. Contraception 77(1):143-146, March 2008.

Estimates of contraceptive failure from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, with Kathryn Kost, Singh, Barbara Vaughan, and Akinrinola Bankole. Contraception 77(1):10-21, January 2008.

Contraceptive Technology: Nineteenth Revised Edition, with Robert A Hatcher, Anita L. Nelson, Willard Cates, Felicia Stewart, and Deborah Kowal. Ardent Media: New York NY, 2007.

Population effect of increased access to emergency contraceptive pills: a systematic review, with Elizabeth G. Raymond and Chelsea Polis. Obstetrics and Gynecology 109(1):181-188, January 2007.

Plan B and the politics of doubt, with Frank Davidoff. Journal of the American Medical Association 296(14):1775-1778, October 11, 2006.

A full list of James Trussell's publications is available.