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John Casterline is Senior Associate, Policy Research Division of the Population Council and has held positions at Brown University (1988-94) and the World Fertility Survey in London, U.K. Most of his research focuses on reproductive behavior, recently with a focus on diffusion models of fertility change, the causes of unmet need for family planning, and demographic transition in the Arab region. He has conducted research in the Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, and Ghana. He currently serves on the Governing Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP] and the Specialist Panel on Social Science and Operations Research in Reproductive Health, WHO Strategic Programme Component on Social Sciences Research on Reproductive Health. He previously served on the IUSSP Committee on the Comparative Analysis of Fertility (1991-95), the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences (1991-97), the Social Sciences and Population Study Section of the NIH (1991-95), Chair of the Publications Committee of the Population Association of America, and the