Duff Gillespie, PhD

Duff Gillespie is a leader in population and reproductive health who currently serves as a senior scholar with the Gates Institute and as a public health professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, he served as a visiting scholar with the Packard Foundation; senior deputy assistant administrator to the Global Health Bureau, USAID; and director, Office of Population at USAID. He has a PhD in sociology from Washington University. Gillespie received the 1977 Arthur Flemming Award for groundbreaking research on community-based family planning and primary provider systems; the Presidential Rank Award in 1988, 1990, and 2001; the 2003 Lifetime Recognition Award from the Global Health Council; and the USAID Administrator's Distinguished Career Award.