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Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, returned this month to BWH as chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities (DSMHI).
Kim was on leave from BWH while he served as director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) HIV/AIDS Department, where he led “3 by 5”—an initiative to provide three million people living with HIV and AIDS in low- and middle-income countries with antiretroviral treatment by the end of 2005. He raised more than $100 million for the work of WHO in the field of HIV/AIDS.
Kim, appointed in the departments of Medicine and Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, is an expert in tuberculosis, and he has conducted extensive research on strategies for treating strains of TB resistant to standard drugs. He has received a number of professional awards during his career, including the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2003, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2004. He is former executive director of Partners In Health, the organization he co-founded with Paul Farmer, MD, to provide health programs to poor communities throughout the world.
Kim replaces Farmer, who has served as chief of the DSMHI for two and a half years. “We thank Dr. Farmer for his ongoing commitment to BWH and to the Department of Medicine, and we warmly welcome Dr. Kim in his new leadership role,” said Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, chief of the Department of Medicine.