Kate Tulenko

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Dr. Kate Tulenko is a globally recognized expert in the field of health systems and health workforce planning and management.  She currently serves as a health specialist in the World Bank where she advises ministries of health on creating improved heath systems to deliver care to their populations.  She coordinates the Bank’s $2 million Africa Health Workforce Program which conducts research and funds programs at the country level to better understand and resolve the health worker shortage with an emphasis on labor market and private sector solutions (www.AfricaHRH.org).  She is currently writing a book on how the global health workforce shortage will affect the United States as its population ages.  She has also worked extensively on issues of maternal and child health; global aging; HIV/AIDS; water, hygiene, and sanitation; and public-private partnerships for health.  Dr. Tulenko has worked with the Hope Street Group Healthcare Team to develop a series of issue papers on health to provide concrete options for President Barack Obama’s health care reform.  She is the co-founder and medical director of Living Solutions, a company that provides seniors and people with disabilities with services to help them “age-in-place” rather than having to move to nursing homes.

Dr. Tulenko has a Bachelors in Biochemistry from Harvard University (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), a Masters in Philosophy in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College), an MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a Masters of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Delta Omega).   In 2002 she received a Rainer Arnhold Fellowship for innovation in global development.  She is a board certified pediatrician and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  She serves on the Advisory Board of the Management Education & Research Consortium.  Dr. Tulenko has adjunct faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the George Mason College of Health and Human Services.