Toshiko Kaneda
Technical Director, Demographic Research
Toshiko Kaneda joined PRB in 2004. Kaneda has 20 years of experience conducting research and demographic analysis. She has written numerous policy publications and peer-reviewed articles on noncommunicable diseases, population aging, health care access, and reproductive health and family planning. Kaneda directs data analysis for the World Population Data Sheet and provides technical guidance on demographic and statistical methods within PRB, as well as to external partners. She also directs PRB’s U.S. Policy Communications Training Program, which trains U.S. doctoral students to translate scientific research findings for non-scientific audiences. The program is supported by the National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining PRB, Kaneda was a Bernard Berelson Fellow at the Population Council. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was also a predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center.
Christine Power
Senior Policy Advisor
Christine Power is a senior policy advisor in International Programs who joined PRB in 2018. Her focus is on the implementation of youth-friendly family planning services and empowering youth advocates for family planning. Power previously worked at the Tanzanian-German Programme to Support Health in Dar es Salaam and at the Institute for Reproductive Health and the World Health Organization. Power holds a master’s degree in global health from the Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Boston University. She speaks intermediate French.
Kaitlyn Patierno
Program Director
Kaitlyn Patierno is program director in International Programs and was the deputy director for the PACE Project. She specializes in family planning policy, program, and advocacy initiatives and links with multisectoral development. Prior to joining PRB, Patierno was a technical specialist at the United States Agency for International Development, where she supported family planning and health systems strengthening programs in the Africa Region. She holds a Master of Public Health in maternal and child health from the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from The George Washington University.
Carl Haub
Demographer Emeritus
Carl Haub has been associated with PRB since 1979. Despite his retirement more than 10 years ago, he still kindly provides his expertise to the annual World Population Data Sheet. While at PRB, Haub worked on projects in the United States and abroad, including in Belarus, Germany, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Seychelles, and Vietnam. Much of his time at PRB was devoted to answering questions from journalists and reporters on demographic issues. He provided briefings to journalists at newspapers throughout the United States and Europe and gave lectures at meetings and press conferences. Haub holds a bachelor’s degree in government and a master’s degree in demography from Georgetown University.
