Introducing CapacityPlus Leaders Maurice Middleberg and Kate Tulenko

IntraHealth named Maurice Middleberg vice president for global policy and head of CapacityPlus, its flagship project to strengthen the global health workforce, and tapped Kate Tulenko to serve as a deputy director of the five-year project. Both leaders are based at IntraHealth’s Washington, DC office.

As vice president for global policy, Middleberg will lead IntraHealth’s efforts to promote evidence-based health policy, with a special emphasis on the global health workforce crisis.

“Leaders from around the world have committed their countries to achieving sustained improvements in global health, as can be seen in the G8 meeting in Italy and President Obama’s Global Health Initiative. This means the poor must have access to qualified health workers,” he says on the urgency of this work.

Middleberg brings 27 years of experience in the field of international public health as an advocate, analyst, senior executive, and teacher. Prior to joining IntraHealth, he served as vice president for public policy at the Global Health Council, the world’s largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. Middleberg has also held executive positions with EngenderHealth and CARE International. A political scientist by training, he is the author of numerous publications.

“I am delighted to join IntraHealth, a world leader in developing human resources for health, and help seize this opportunity to improve access to essential health services,” Middleberg acknowledges.

Kate Tulenko is a physician and global health specialist with extensive health systems experience.  She joined IntraHealth from the World Bank where she managed the Bank’s Africa Health Workforce program. With CapacityPlus she focuses on increasing the production and efficiency of health workers through improved education, training, retention, and support.

“CapacityPlus has a unique opportunity to transform the global health team,” says Dr. Tulenko. “We can help countries move from outdated, unsustainable health education and delivery systems to systems that are more responsive to their unique health needs and reflective of existing and future challenges. I’m proud to be a part of IntraHealth and a part of this effort.”

Tulenko has been an advisor to national governments on health policy reform and has served on many expert panels for the World Bank, World Health Organization, American Public Health Association, Global Health Workforce Alliance, and American Hospital Association. She has published on an array of topics, and she holds degrees from Harvard, Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University. Tulenko serves on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the George Mason College of Health and Human Services.

“Maurice and Kate bring solid public health track records, including a thorough appreciation of the needs, constraints, and opportunities facing health workers in communities around the world,” said IntraHealth President and CEO Pape Gaye. “We are grateful and honored to gain their talent and expertise.”

About CapacityPlus
CapacityPlus addresses both the number of health workers needed in developing countries and the quality and performance of those workers. The project will build capacity in service delivery, thereby increasing access to vital family planning/reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and maternal and child health services. In addition to lead partner IntraHealth International, the CapacityPlus core partnership includes Abt Associates, IMA World Health, Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH), and Training Resources Group, Inc. (TRG).

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