Kaitlyn Patierno

Kaitlyn Patierno is a senior program director at PRB. She brings to her work a passion to use data as a powerful tool to help ensure everyone, everywhere can access healthcare that honors their wellbeing, their choices, and their voice. Her expertise includes sexual and reproductive health, fertility, demographic data, and data-driven policy and advocacy, and serves as PRB’s organizational lead for monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL).

Kaitlyn directs PRB efforts under the Protecting SRHR in the Context of Fertility Decline project and the Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) Policy and Systems project. She previously served as Deputy Director of PRB’s PACE project, a 7-year, $35M USAID-funded cooperative agreement to strengthen capacities in advocacy, policy communication, negotiation, and multisectoral approaches, achieving 240+ positive changes in reproductive health policies, strategies, and budgets across 20 countries. She also served as Director of PRB’s BMGF-funded Building Evidence for Data Use Project in Nigeria, which assessed awareness and use of family planning data to inform federal and state-level decisions.

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 Bureau for Africa. 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.