Kristen P. Patterson
Former Program Director
Email: media@prb.org
Featured Resources
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Building Resilience Through Family Planning and Adaptation Finance
This resource package contains a new how-to video for informing family planning and reproductive health program implementers and advocates on strategies for positioning their programs to access climate adaptation funding.

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Fact Sheet. New Research Reveals Family Planning Is Associated With Enhanced Resilience (PDF)
New research indicates that family planning and use of maternal and child health facilities is positively associated with resilience. Resilience has a range of definitions and operates at different scales.

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New Research Reveals Family Planning Is Associated With Enhanced Resilience
New research indicates that family planning and use of maternal and child health facilities is positively associated with resilience. Resilience has a range of definitions and operates at different scales.

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Changes in Household Well-Being and Resilience
Both the family planning sector and the environmental sector will be interested in this new Evidence Project synopsis of findings from a study of the first four years of the Tuungane integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) project in Tanzania.

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Climate Change, Health, and Population Dynamics: A View From Tanzania
As people around the world celebrate the remarkable Paris Agreement to address climate change, there’s a genuine opportunity for countries to act on their financial pledges to help the world adapt to climate change—especially people in developing countries who are most vulnerable.
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How Family Planning Could Help Slow Climate Change
(2015) In the mid-1990s, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in Niger, a West African country consistently ranked as one of the poorest in the world.