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.
Celena Mijares
Research Analyst
Celena Mijares is a research analyst in U.S. Programs. She supports senior researchers by ensuring data quality and providing administrative support. Mijares joined PRB in 2021. She previously worked as a market researcher at a private firm. Mijares holds a master’s degree in demographic and social analysis and a bachelor’s degree in economics and international studies, both from the University of California, Irvine.
Lara Vaz
Senior Program Director
Lara Vaz is a senior program director in International Programs and serves as technical director for the MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator project. She joined PRB in March 2020. She has more than 25 years of experience with public health program planning, implementation, research, and monitoring and evaluation in the United States and globally, including work on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and maternal, newborn, and child health programs. Her prior work history includes nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and United Nations agencies. She currently sits on several international working groups and advisory boards focusing on improving health measurement. Vaz holds a Ph.D. in health behavior and health education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in science in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health, now known as the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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.
