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Senior Lecturer of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health
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| Jason B. Smith is director of Research Utilization, Family Health International. In his current position, Dr. Smith provides strategic, technical and managerial leadership to FHI’s efforts to expand and accelerate the uptake of evidence-based practices into reproductive health service delivery programs. He also serves as a senior advisor to the Mailman School’s Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program while pursuing his research interests. This includes the design and implementation of a system to align research priorities with the needs of fields-based programs, in addition to activities of the Implementing Best Practices Consortium. Dr. Smith’s recent maternal health work involves use of UN Process Indicators to evaluate emergency obstetric care program implementation, evaluation of a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) training and re-conceptualization of TBA roles in their transition to skilled attendance at delivery, and descriptive epidemiology of maternal morbidity in low resources settings. During his two decades of research and program experience, Dr. Smith has authored over 40 publications on sexual and reproductive health topics and has served as a consultant to a variety of public health agencies, including the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health. In addition to his faculty association at Columbia, he is also adjunct associate professor of Health Behavior/Health Education at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill. Dr. Smith has broad field experience including work in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Haiti, Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Zaire.
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