Kate Tulenko

About Kate Tulenko

Dr. Kate Tulenko has worked for over 25 years creating, identifying, and scaling up innovations in the health, education, and social sectors in established and emerging markets. She is now focusing on AI change management.She led the world\'s largest global health workforce program for the US Government. Under her leadership, the program increased the number of health workers globally, including physicians and nurses; saved governments over a billion dollars; and developed systems that improve health worker recruitment, retention, productivity, and quality of care and reduce burnout.In 2017, Dr. Tulenko founded Corvus Health, a global health workforce firm that provides scalable services across the health labor market, including advisory services, M&A due diligence, financing, team optimization, quality and productivity improvement, recruitment, staffing, training, HR management, change management, etc. Dr. Tulenko and her team identify and address market gaps in the health, education, and social sectors. These gaps include telemedicine, senior care/geriatrics, sustainable international recruitment, and enterprise systems for emerging market health systems. Corvus Health designs strategic plans for the health sector workforce, which is the largest budget line-item in all health systems. Clients of Corvus Health include governments, hospitals, private equity firms, venture capital firms, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, and health professional schools. Dr. Tulenko has a deep network in emerging markets and excels at deal sourcing.The global and regional health worker shortages and maldistributions that threaten the delivery of healthcare everywhere prompted Dr. Tulenko to found Appleseed Education, an EdTech platform to digitalize, expand, and improve nursing schools to train nurses for both developed and emerging markets. Appleseed’s goal is to train an additional 1 million new health workers by 2035.Her expertise has been recognized through numerous awards, including her appointment to President Biden’s President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa, finalist in the Seedstars\' Migration Challenge, named one of “50 Women Experts in Global Health Security” by Women in Global Health, receiving the Eckhert-Fazen Award for Contributions to Health, Workforce named one of “300 Women Leaders in Global Health” by the Geneva Institute, and served as an Inaugural Fellow in the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship for entrepreneurship in global health.Dr. Tulenko and her team are available for expert consultations.

Experience

1. Advisor

   Mgenerx

   Jan 2024 — Present

   mGeneRX is software that uses AI-powered face recognition to diagnose congenital disorders more accurately than pediatricians. mGeneRX will revolutionize the screening and diagnosis of children with congenital conditions and speed their access to treatment. We are currently seeking letters of interest from organizations around the world that are interested in using the app.

Education

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  MPH, Health Systems Design and Management

• Harvard University

  BA, Biochemistry

• The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  MD, Medicine

• University of Cambridge

  MPhil, History and Philosophy of Science

Skills

• Health Policy
• Global Health
• Medicine
• Maternal-Child Health
• Grant Writing
• Healthcare Information Technology (Hit)
• Portuguese
• Biostatistics
• Health Promotion
• Community Health
• Public Policy
• Malaria
• Government
• Nonprofits
• Health Economics
• Human Resources for Health
• Africa
• Clinical Research
• Grants
• Pediatrics
• Health Services Research
• Capacity Building
• Public Health
• Healthcare Management
• Program Evaluation
• Plannning
• Healthcare
• Civil Society
• Hiv Prevention
• Hospitals
• Aging in Place
• Spanish
• Public/Private Partnerships
• Health Systems
• Physicians
• Nonprofit Organizations
• International Development
• Management
• Ngos
• Policy