Kate Tulenko

Dr. Kate Tulenko is a physician, health policy specialist, and former coordinator of the World Bank's Africa Health Workforce Program. She recently served as team lead on Health Workforce Shortage for the "Reinventing Primary Care Project" for the Hope Street Group, a bipartisan coalition of business, civic, and policy leaders.

Dr. Tulenko serves on the board of the National Physicians Alliance and on the board of advisors for the Global Business School Network and in 2002 she received a Rainer Arnhold Fellowship for innovation in global development. She is a practicing pediatrician and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Tulenko has degrees from Harvard; Johns Hopkins; and Emmanuel College, Cambridge and holds adjunct faculty positions at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the George Mason School of Health and Human Services.

Her book, Insourced: How Insourcing Jobs Impacts Health Here and Abroad, addresses how the US is underinvesting in training young Americans to be health workers and instead imports doctors and nurses from poor countries with extreme health worker shortages. Opinions expressed in Insourced represent those of Dr. Tulenko alone and do not represent opinions or policies of her funders or employers.

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