Dr. Kate Tulenko MD, MPH, MPhil, FAAP is a physician entrepreneur and health systems and health workforce expert. She is the CEO of Corvus Health, a global health workforce firm that helps health systems and governments develop, manage, and retain an optimized health workforce. Corvus Health was honored for its innovative model of sustainable international health worker migration as a finalist in the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the International Organization of Employers (IOE) Migration Challenge 2021. Dr. Tulenko teaches a course on Health Workforce and AI as adjunct faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. In 2022 Dr. Tulenko was appointed by President Biden to the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA), which advises the President and Secretary of Commerce on how to support African and U.S. businesses to increase mutual trade. Dr. Tulenko is also founder and CEO of Appleseed Education, a platform that addresses the global health worker shortage by supporting African nursing schools to digitalize, improve, and expand. Appleseed is also working with African health science schools to train refugees and IDPs to be health workers to facilitate their return home or their movement and employment in other countries. To facilitate the movement of lower-level health workers, Appleseed and partners are creating a globally recognized eldercare certificate. Previously, she served as director of the U.S. government’s global health workforce project and the coordinator of the World Bank’s Africa Health Workforce program. Dr. Tulenko serves on the board of advisors for the Global Business School Network (GBSN); VaxSyna, a vaccine development company that produces effective, affordable vaccines and mGeneRX, a company that makes software that helps pediatricians and geneticists screen children for hundreds of genetic disorders from a single photo of the child’s face. 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. Dr. Tulenko received her bachelors in biochemistry from Harvard, her masters in history and philosophy of science 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. Follow her on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/ktulenko.