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Kate Tulenko, IntraHealth International, Deputy Director for Clinical Services and Service Delivery Strengthening
Kate Tulenko has worked at the highest levels of health workforce, health financing, and health policy development with institutions around the world. She 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 more. Tulenko 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.

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

Selected Publications
Jaskiewicz, Wanda, Kate Tulenko, Peter Rockers, Laura Wurts, and George Mgomella. 2010. Retaining hospital workers: A rapid methodology to determine incentive packages. World Hospitals and Health Services, 46 no. 3: 8-11. http://www.ihf-fih.org/en/Publications/Journals/World-Hospitals/World-Ho...

Tulenko, Kate. 2011. Passport to crisis: How insourcing jobs hurts health care here and abroad. PoliPoint Press (forthcoming).

Tulenko, Kate, and Andre-Jacques Neusy. 2010. Health worker education. In Africa Health Workforce: A new look at the crisis. Washington, DC: World Bank (forthcoming).

Tulenko, Kate. 2007. 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. Washington, DC: World Bank.

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

Languages
Spanish, Indonesian/Malay, Portuguese

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