Kate Tulenko, MD, MPH, MPhil

Kate TulenkoA physician and global health specialist, Kate Tulenko has worked at the highest levels of health workforce, health financing, and health policy development with institutions around the world. She joined IntraHealth from the World Bank, where she managed the Bank’s Africa Health Workforce program, to become deputy director of CapacityPlus, the USAID-funded global project uniquely focused on the health workforce needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.


Tulenko has been an advisor to national governments on health policy and reform, and served on expert panels for the World Bank, World Health Organization, AFRO, American Public Health Association, Global Health Workforce Alliance, American Hospital Association, and currently serves on the National Physicians Alliance board of directors.

She has published on a wide array of topics. Her most recent book, Passport to Crisis: How Insourcing Jobs Hurts Health Care Here and Abroad, will be released in the spring of 2011. She also holds academic appointments at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the George Mason College of Health and Human Services. Tulenko holds an MD and MPA from Johns Hopkins University, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College.
 

Publications

"Countries Without Doctors?" (article) Foriegn Policy, June 2010

Passport to Crisis: How the US' over-reliance of imported health workers hurts the US and the rest of the world. (book), PoliPoint Press, 2011

"Health Worker Education" (chapter) Africa Health Workforce: A new look at the crisis. (Contributing author) World Bank, 2010

“Analysis of Research on the Effects of Improved Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene on the Health of People Living with HIV/AIDS and Recommended Next Steps”, submitted to WHO Bulletin, 2007.

Education

BA, Harvard University
MPhil, University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College
MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Expertise

  • Human resources for health; workforce development
  • Health systems design; cross-sectoral health
  • Health policy
  • Foreign health markets
  • Maternal and child health; HIV/AIDS
  • Water and sanitation
  • Public-private partnerships in health
  • Technology for public health
  • Global aging; public health responses to aging populations
  • Hospital management