About

Dr. Kate Tulenko is a physician-entrepreneur and health sector advisor with over 25 years of experience in US and emerging markets.  She founded Corvus Health, a global health workforce firm, which has worked with Actis PE, Elevate Capital, GE, Roche, and other clients to expand into emerging markets and improve operational efficiency.  She also founded Appleseed Education, an EdTech platform to scale up health professional schools worldwide. Previously, she served as the director of the US government’s global health workforce project were she performed a turnaround of the project and saved governments hundreds of millions of dollars through change management, redesigning care delivery, and improving operational efficiency.  As a senior health specialist at the World Bank, she worked across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East improving the efficiency of health facilities. A frequent advisor to venture accelerators, she has worked with the Watson Institute, CAI, and the Tony Elumelu Foundation to mentor high-growth startups.

Her expertise has been recognized by her many awards and her appointment to the US President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa, where she advised on how to increase bilateral trade between the US and Africa. Dr. Tulenko served on the World Economic Forum’s  Council on Healthy Ageing and Longevity where she advised WEF on issues related to the aging of populations and potential business solutions. Corvus Health was recognized for its innovation by being awarded as a finalist for its sustainable approach to international migration of high-skilled workers in the International Organization for Migration/Seedstars Migration Challenge 2022, and as a winner in the Center for Advancing Innovation’s Global Health Challenge 2023.

Dr. Tulenko serves as adjunct faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and serves on the board of advisors for VaxSyna (vaccine startup), mGeneRX (health IT startup), the Global Business School Network, the Ras al Khaimah Center for Health Workforce Development (the only health workforce center in the Gulf), HIPPOS Global (health service outsourcing), and the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations.  She was named one of "50 Women in Global Health Security" by Women in Global Health and one of “300 Women Leaders in Global Health” by the Geneva Graduate Institute. She received her bachelors in biochemistry from Harvard (Phi Beta Kappa Class Marshal, Harvard Science Review Editor in Chief), her masters in history and philosophy of science/medical ethics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and her masters of public health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Tulenko speaks widely including as a regular commentator on the China Global Television Network (CGTN) and most recently spoke on artificial intelligence and change management in the health sector at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC), the largest health sector meeting in Southeast Asia. Connect on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/ktulenko.

Health workers is the single largest budget item in any healthcare company and they drive quality and all other expenses. I'm one of the world's leading experts in health workforce and have extensive experience in VC, PE, and turnaround. I have saved health systems hundreds of millions of dollars by increasing health worker efficiency.