Karen Hardee and Kathleen Mogelgaard

Dr. Karen Hardee joined PAI as Vice President of Research in 2007 with more than twenty years experience in social demography. Dr. Hardee has focused on population and development, family planning and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, gender integration, and monitoring and evaluation.

Dr. Hardee provides technical direction on PAI’s diverse research portfolio, including population and climate change, reproductive health supplies, the integration of HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health, financing, and gender and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Hardee has led PAI’s research on population, sexual reproductive health and adaptation to climate change.

Prior to joining PAI, Dr. Hardee was senior advisor at John Snow, Inc., where her work focused on building harmonized tools for global partners to assess and improve the quality of data reported to measure success in global health initiatives. Dr. Hardee was director of Constella Futures’ Center for Research and Evaluation, and director of research on the POLICY Project. Dr. Hardee also worked at Family Health International as a deputy director of the Service Delivery Research Division and principal research scientist on the Women’s Studies Project and at USAID and the U.S. Bureau of the Census as a presidential management fellow.

Dr. Hardee holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University’s Population and Development Program. Dr. Hardee has consulted for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and has received funding for research and evaluation projects from Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNDP, USAID, CDC, the Gates Foundation, the Open Society Institute, and the Ford Foundation. Dr. Hardee holds a B.A. from Duke University in Comparative Area Studies and a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University.

Kathleen Mogelgaard joined PAI in September 2008 as Senior Program Manager for the Population and Climate Change Program. Kathleen has spent more than ten years on research, policy, and advocacy on population and environmental issues. Prior to joining PAI, Kathleen was Assistant Director of Government Relations at the National Audubon Society, http://www.audubon.org where she managed the organization's work on population and international conservation policy issues. As a Population-Environment Fellow at the Population Reference Bureau, Kathleen provided technical support and conducted research on population, health, and the environment in Asia and Africa. She coordinated policy advocacy efforts on population-environment linkages at the National Wildlife Federation and the Union of Concerned Scientists. She holds masters degrees in natural resources and public policy from the University of Michigan, and a bachelors degree in environmental science from the College of William and Mary.