Dr. Kate Tulenko

Dr. Kate Tulenko is a globally recognized expert in health workforce, digital health/eHealth, global health security, and health systems strengthening. She currently serves as Founder and CEO of Corvus Health, a global health workforce firm. Corvus Health helps governments and hospitals improve their health worker teams through advisory services, recruitment, training, quality improvement, and HR management. She previously served as Vice President for Health Systems Innovation at IntraHealth International (IH), a global non-profit organization which has worked for over thirty-five years in over one hundred countries to support the needs of health workers in under-served communities. Dr. Tulenko served as Interim Director of Digital Health and developed IH’s new private sector portfolio. Dr. Tulenko was responsible for obtaining IH’s status as an “NGO in official relations with WHO” and established IH’s relationship with the World Economic Forum, the Africa Healthcare Federation, and the International Hospital Federation. She previously served as the Director of CapacityPlus, the US government’s flagship global health workforce project. Before joining IH, Dr. Tulenko coordinated the World Bank’s Africa Health Workforce Program.

Dr. Tulenko has served on expert panels for the World Bank, World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the American Hospital Association, and other organizations. Her most recent book “Insourced” identifies the links between the US and global health worker shortage and offers affordable solutions. Dr. Tulenko has had articles or reviews in the New York Times, Salon.com, Foreign Policy, and the Huffington Post.

Dr. Tulenko has degrees from Harvard University; the University of Cambridge; the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the Global Business School Network, DRASA Trust, and Children’s Heartlink and previously served on the board of the National Physicians Alliance. Dr. Tulenko is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and has received a Rainer Arnhold Fellowship for innovation in global development. She has been named one of “300 Women Leaders in Global Health” by the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Dr. Tulenko has received communications and media training through the World Bank’s Development Communications program and from the National Physicians Alliance. She has been interviewed for print, radio, and television by a variety of media outlets including the Huffington Post, Washington Times, NPR, Chinese Global Television Network (CGTN), Voice of America, BBC Africa, Reuters Africa, Arise Television Network, Al Hurrah TV, Africa Journal, AMN Healthcare News, Minnesota Public Radio, the World Future Society, and the Hindustan Times.

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