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Overview

James Trussell was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on medicine, with specific attention to public health, environmental and occupational health, reproductive medicine, general health professions, and pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

Throughout their career, Trussell contributed to topics including reproductive health and contraception, reproductive health and technologies, pregnancy and medication impact, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, global maternal and child health, male reproductive health studies, and sperm and testicular function.

Trussell authored or coauthored several recent papers. Among these were:

  • Modeling the Impacts of Price of an Over-the-Counter Progestin-Only Pill on Use and Unintended Pregnancy among U.S. Women (2020, Women s Health Issues)
  • Progestin-only contraceptives: effects on weight (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • 12. The Cost of Unintended Pregnancies (CoUP) in Canadian Adolescents and the Potential Impact of Increased Use of Long Acting Contraceptives (2020, Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology)
  • MP21-06 ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL: VARIATIONS BY ETHNICITY IN DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MEN SEEKING FERTILITY TREATMENT ACROSS NORTH AMERICA (2021, The Journal of Urology)

Frequent coauthors collaborated with Trussell on their work included Alexandra Wollum, Daniel Grossman, Kate Grindlay, Laureen M Lopez, and Shanthi Ramesh.

Their research was published in venues such as:

  • Women s Health Issues
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
  • The Journal of Urology

Best Publications

  • Contraceptive failure in the United States

    James Trussell

  • The risk of pregnancy after tubal sterilization: Findings from the U.S. collaborative review of sterilization

    Herbert B. Peterson;Zhisen Xia;Joyce M. Hughesa;Lynne S. Wilcox

  • Estimates of contraceptive failure from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth

    Kathryn Kost;Susheela Singh;Barbara Vaughan;James Trussell;James Trussell

  • New estimates of the effectiveness of the Yuzpe regimen of emergency contraception

    James Trussell;Germán Rodrı́guez;Charlotte Ellertson

  • Contraceptive failure in the United States: a critical review of the literature.

    James Trussell;Kathryn Kost

  • Contraceptive failure, method-related discontinuation and resumption of use: results from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth.

    James Trussell;Barbara Vaughan

  • Likelihood of conception with a single act of intercourse: providing benchmark rates for assessment of post-coital contraceptives

    Allen J. Wilcox;David B. Dunson;Clarice R. Weinberg;James Trussell

  • Cost effectiveness of contraceptives in the United States.

    James Trussell;Anjana M. Lalla;Quan V. Doan;Eileen Reyes

  • Are all contraceptive failures unintended pregnancies? Evidence from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth.

    James Trussell;Barbara Vaughan;Joseph Stanford

  • The economic value of contraception: a comparison of 15 methods.

    J Trussell;J A Leveque;J D Koenig;R London

  • The efficacy of intrauterine devices for emergency contraception: a systematic review of 35 years of experience

    Kelly Cleland;Haoping Zhu;Norman Goldstuck;Linan Cheng

  • Population effect of increased access to emergency contraceptive pills: a systematic review.

    Elizabeth G. Raymond;James Trussell;Chelsea B. Polis

  • WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE CANCERS IN EVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT

    S. Boyd Eaton;Malcolm C. Pike;Roger V. Short;Nancy C. Lee

  • Contraceptive failure in the United States: an update.

    James Trussell;Robert A. Hatcher;Willard Cates;Felicia Hance Stewart

  • Burden of unintended pregnancy in the United States: potential savings with increased use of long-acting reversible contraception.

    James Trussell;Nathaniel Henry;Fareen Hassan;Alexander Prezioso

  • Contraceptive discontinuation attributed to method dissatisfaction in the United States

    Caroline Moreau;Kelly Cleland;James Trussell;James Trussell

  • Emergency contraceptive pills: a simple proposal to reduce unintended pregnancies.

    James Trussell;Felicia Stewart;Felicia Guest;Robert A. Hatcher

  • Sexual satisfaction and sexual health among university students in the United States.

    Jenny A. Higgins;Margo Mullinax;James Trussell;J. Kenneth Davidson

  • The Risk of Ectopic Pregnancy after Tubal Sterilization

    Herbert B. Peterson;Zhisen Xia;Joyce M. Hughes;Lynne S. Wilcox

  • Original research article Cost effectiveness of contraceptives in the United States

    James Trussell;Anjana M. Lalla;Quan V. Doan;Eileen Reyes

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane Menken
Jane Menken University of Colorado Boulder
Michael A. Stoto
Michael A. Stoto Georgetown University
Herbert B. Peterson
Herbert B. Peterson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David E. Bloom
David E. Bloom Harvard University
Jennifer S. Barber
Jennifer S. Barber Indiana University
Joseph E. Potter
Joseph E. Potter The University of Texas at Austin
Robert W. Fogel
Robert W. Fogel University of Chicago
Stanley L. Engerman
Stanley L. Engerman University of Rochester
Irva Hertz-Picciotto
Irva Hertz-Picciotto University of California, Davis
Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Jeffrey T. Borenstein Draper Laboratory

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