Project Leadership

Maurice I. Middleberg, IntraHealth International, Director
Maurice Middleberg has over 27 years of experience in the field of global health as an advocate, analyst, senior executive, teacher, and writer. In addition to directing CapacityPlus, Middleberg serves as IntraHealth’s vice president for global policy and provides leadership to the organization’s advocacy for evidence-based global health policy, with a special focus on the global health workforce crisis. He brings to these roles an acute understanding of the needs, constraints, and opportunities facing health workers as they serve their communities. Prior to joining IntraHealth, Middleberg served as vice president for public policy at the Global Health Council, executive vice president at EngenderHealth, health director for CARE, visiting assistant professor at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, director of the Population Policy Program at the Futures Group, and population program coordinator for USAID/Niger. He is a political scientist by training and the author of numerous publications.

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.

James McCaffery, Training Resources Group (TRG), Deputy Director for HRH and Health Systems Strengthening
James McCaffery is a founding member of TRG—one of the partners on the CapacityPlus project—and has over 30 years’ experience helping to build the capacity of ministry planners, human resources management units, USAID missions, private sector groups, nongovernmental organizations, and community groups in developing countries. For CapacityPlus, he oversees and guides all health systems strengthening activities, with particular responsibility for partnership, policy, planning and human resources management system strengthening initiatives. For the last 25 years he has played a major role in growing TRG into a well-respected consulting firm that has worked in 100 countries. His international work spans 18 countries in North and sub-Saharan Africa, Asia/Near East, and Central America, and includes strategic planning and system strengthening work with 10 USAID missions and four USAID bureaus. He has a PhD in education from the University of Wisconsin.

Sara Pacqué-Margolis, IntraHealth International, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation
Sara Pacqué-Margolis has over 25 years of global health experience in program and policy development, project management, program monitoring and evaluation, research, teaching, and training. Her previous roles include director of program monitoring and evaluation at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, senior advisor for strategic information with the Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator/PEPFAR, and several positions with USAID/Washington, including senior HIV/AIDS advisor for Africa, senior technical advisor for MEASURE Evaluation, and Africa regional coordinator for the PHN Center. Pacqué-Margolis has held field positions in Mali as a research fellow at the Center for Applied Research on Population and Development and as the population advisor for USAID. She also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pacqué-Margolis earned her Master’s of Public Health and completed additional training in demography from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.

Robert Steiner, IntraHealth International, Senior Finance Manager
Robert Steiner oversees the areas of finance and operations for CapacityPlus. Steiner came to IntraHealth International from the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, where he worked as senior financial manager for the Center for Economic and Capacity Development. Previous positions include financial analyst with Crowell & Moring LLP, budget/financial officer in the Office of Education and Programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, director of contracts and financial management with the American Architectural Foundation, and director of the Office of Finance and Outreach with the Atlantic Council of the United States. He received a master’s degree in international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh, and undergraduate degrees in finance, international studies, and history from the University of South Carolina.

Dana Singleton, IntraHealth International, Program Manager
Dana Singleton supports CapacityPlus’s global leadership and human resources for health (HRH) policy and planning activities, and contributes expertise in management systems and operations. In addition, she is the activity lead for the project’s OVC-funded work to strengthen the social welfare workforce. She has over 10 years of global health experience, focusing on HRH over the last six. Under the USAID-funded Capacity Project, she provided management and operations oversight for the project’s portfolio of core-funded activities and served as coordinator for the eight organizations in the project partnership.

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