Dr. Kate Tulenko

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Kate Tulenko is CEO of Corvus Health, a globally recognized health workforce and health systems strengthening entity.  Previously, she served as Vice President, Health Systems Innovation, for IntraHealth International; as Director of CapacityPlus, the USAID’s flagship global health workforce project, as coordinator of the World Bank’s Africa Health Workforce Program. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, holds an adjunct faculty position in the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and has served on expert panels for the WHO, the American Hospital Association, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and others. 

Dr. Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya is a founding member of the Respiratory Society of Kenya and serves on the executive committee of the Pan African Thoracic Society. He is a professor of global respiratory health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and a technical expert for the Kenyan NTP. He has held several key international roles, including vice chair of the Stop TB Partnership coordinating board, chair of WHO's STAG-TB, and president of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. He also holds an honorary teaching position at Kenyatta University.

Dr. Maarten van Cleeff

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Maarten van Cleeff is a global leader in the TB field. During 2000 and 2018 he served as the Program Director of four consecutive USAID-funded TB control programs (TBCTA, TB CAP, TB CARE I and Challenge TB) implemented in 24 countries. He also served as the President of TB Alliance Stakeholders Association and as an Ex Officio member of the TB Alliance’s Board of Directors. Previously, at Royal Tropical Institute, he served as the head of the Infectious Diseases section and the head of the Health Department.

Dr. Ersin Topcuoglu

Founder & Director General

Dr. Ersin Topcuoglu holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Cumhuriyet University in Turkiye (1987) and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, specializing in Population and International Health (1994). Over a decade, he managed the operations of three global tuberculosis control programs across 24 countries, overseeing a cumulative budget of $830 million between 2010 and 2019. His leadership extended to multidisciplinary teams, including finance, operations, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) professionals. He has designed and managed global M&E frameworks for tuberculosis control and led the development and implementation of a cross-border malaria control program along the Myanmar-Thailand border. In addition, he has conducted international courses focused on M&E and data-driven decision-making. His professional qualifications span program design and results-based management, health systems strengthening, infectious disease epidemiology and control, data analytics, planning and evaluation, quality assurance, performance improvement, and capacity strengthening.