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Jim Yong Kim holds appointments as François Xavier Bagnoud Professor
of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and
Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He is chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a major Harvard teaching hospital;
director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and
Human Rights; and chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard
Medical School.
Dr. Kim returned to Harvard in December 2005 after a three-year leave
of absence at the World Health Organization (WHO). While on leave, Dr.
Kim was director of the WHO’s HIV/AIDS department, a post he was
appointed to in March 2004 after serving as advisor to the WHO director-general.
Dr. Kim oversaw all of WHO’s work related to HIV/AIDS, focusing
on initiatives to help developing countries scale up their treatment,
prevention, and care programs, including the “3x5” initiative
designed to put three million people in developing countries on AIDS
treatment by the end of 2005.
Dr. Kim has 20 years of experience in improving health in developing
countries. He is a founding trustee and the former executive director
of Partners In Health, a not-for-profit organization that supports a
range of health programs in poor communities in Haiti, Peru, Russia,
Rwanda, and the United States.
An expert in tuberculosis, Dr. Kim has chaired or served on a number
of committees on international TB policy. He has conducted extensive
research into effective and affordable strategies for treating strains
of TB that are resistant to standard drugs. While at WHO, Dr. Kim was
responsible for coordinating HIV efforts with the TB department.
Dr. Kim trained dually as a physician and medical anthropologist. He
received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Kim is the
recipient of a number of professional awards, including a 2003 MacArthur
Fellowship. He was a contributing editor to the 2003 and 2004 World
Health Report, and his edited volume Dying for Growth: Global Inequity
and the Health of the Poor analyzes the effects of economic and political
change on health outcomes in developing countries.
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