Dr. Kate Tulenko is a globally recognized expert in the fields of health service delivery, health system reform, and health workforce planning and management.  She currently serves as a health policy specialist at 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.  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 done extensive work and served on expert panels on health maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, health systems, health policy, and sanitation & hygiene for the World Bank, the World Health Organization,  the American Public Health Association, the African Union, the Global Health Workforce Alliance, and the American Hospital Association.  Dr. Tulenko 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 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 Global Business School Network and has adjunct faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the George Mason College of Health and Human Services.