Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith has joined the Strategy Team as Senior Technical Manager with responsibilities in women’s and children’s health.

Jeff is an obstetrician/gynecologist from the US with 29 years of clinical and public health experience in countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., US, and his public health degree from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US.

He recently spent five years as the Deputy Director of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously he was Vice President for Technical Leadership at Jhpiego, where he led clinical interventions and implementation approaches in RMNCAH and infectious diseases, and was a member of both the medical and public health faculties at Johns Hopkins. He spent 10 years in Asia where he provided program management support and technical guidance to public health programs in Nepal, Afghanistan, and Thailand.