Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Korean-American, is a pioneering leader of the world’s epidemics such as AIDS and TB. The former director of WHO’s HIV/AIDS unit spearheaded a program called “3 by 5” to treat 3 million people in 5 years. It was the first ever global goal on AIDS treatment, which changed the whole attitude of the WHO on the world’s pandemic. Back in Harvard, Dr. Kim is even redoubling his efforts to improve global health and equality as Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health, Chair of the HMS(Harvard Medical School) Department of Social Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

He is also a co-founder of Partners In Health, an non-profit international organization, where he and Dr. Paul Farmer blazed a new trail in thinking regarding treatment and health care for people with TB, and especially drug-resistant TB, and HIV in poor countries. A member of the Institute of Medicine, Dr. Kim also received a MacArthur “Genius” Award in 2003. In 2006, he was selected as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.