Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim MD, PhD, juga dikenal dengan nama Kim Yong (; lahir 8 Desember 1959), adalah dokter dan antropolog Korea-Amerika yang diangkat menjadi Presiden Bank Dunia ke-12 pada Juli 2012. Ia sebelumnya menjabat sebagai Presiden Dartmouth College sejak tahun 2009 sampai 2012. Ia juga pernah menjabat Ketua Departemen Kesehatan Global dan Kedokteran Sosial di Harvard Medical School dan pendiri sekaligus direktur eksekutif Partners In Health.

Pada 2 Maret 2009, Kim ditunjuk sebagai presiden Dartmouth College ke-17, jabatan yang baru didudukinya secara resmi tanggal 1 Juli 2009. Ia menjadi orang Asia-Amerika pertama yang menjadi presiden lembaga pendidikan Ivy League.

Pada tanggal 23 Maret 2012, Presiden Barack Obama mengumumkan bahwa Amerika Serikat akan mencalonkan Kim sebagai presiden Bank Dunia selanjutnya menggantikan Robert Zoellick. Pada 16 April, Kim terpilih sebagai ketua Bank Dunia dan mulai menjabat pada 1 Juli 2012. Tanggal 16 Maret 2015, Kim memimpin peluncuran Open Learning Campus di Bank Dunia. Open Learning Campus bertujuan menjadikan keterlibatan warga negara sebagai kurikulum pendidikan yang paling populer, berkelanjutan, dan berdampak besar bagi generasi milenium.

Kim merupakan tokoh paling berpengaruh ke-50 di dunia versi Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People tahun 2013.

Karya 

 Farmer Paul E, Kim JY. Community-based approaches to the control of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: Introducing “DOTS-plus”. British Medical Journal 1998; 317:671-4.
 Becerra MC, Bayona J, Freeman J, Farmer PE, Kim JY. Redefining MDR-TB transmission “hot spots.” International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2000; 4(5):387-94.
 Farmer Paul, Leandre F, Mukherjee JS, Claude M, Nevil P, Smith-Fawzi MC, Koenig SP, Castro A, Becerra MC, Sachs J, Attaran A, Kim JY. Community-based approaches to HIV treatment in resource-poor settings. Lancet 2001; 358(9279):404-9.
 Farmer Paul, Leandre F, Mukherjee J, Gupta R, Tarter L, Kim JY. Community-based treatment of advanced HIV disease: Introducing DOT-HAART (Directly Observed therapy with highly active antiretroviral therapy). Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2001; 79(12):1145–51.
 Mitnick C, Bayona J, Palacios E, Shin S, Furin J, Alcántara F, Sánchez E, Sarria M, Becerra M, Fawzi MCS, Kapiga S, Neuberg D, Maguire JH, Kim JY, Farmer PE. Community-based therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lima, Peru. New England Journal of Medicine 2003; 348(2):119-28.
 Gupta Raj, Irwin A, Raviglione MC, Kim JY. Scaling up treatment for HIV/AIDS: Lessons learned from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Lancet 2004; 363(9405):320-4.
 Kim Jim Yong, Farmer P. AIDS in 2006 – Moving toward one world, one hope? New England Journal of Medicine 2006; 355:645-7.
 Kim Jim Yong. Unexpected political immunity to AIDS. Lancet 2006; 368(9534):441-2.
 Kim Jim Yong. A lifelong battle against disease. U.S. News and World Report 2007; 143(18):62-4.
 Kim Jim Yong. Toward a Golden Age- Reflections on Global Health and Social Justice. Harvard International Review 2007; 29 (2): 20–25.
 Kim Jim Yong, Farmer Paul. Surgery and Global Health: A View from Beyond the OR. World Journal of Surgery 2008; 32(4): 533–6.
 Kim Jim Yong, Millen JV, A Irwin, J Gershman (eds.). Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2000.
 Jain Sachin H, Weintraub R, Rhatigan J, Porter ME, Kim JY. Delivering Global Health. Student British Medical Journal 2008; 16:27.
 Kim Jim Yong, Rhatigan J, Jain SH, Weintraub R, Porter ME. From a declaration of values to the creation of value in global health: a report from Harvard University's Global Health Delivery Project. Glob Public Health. 2010 Mar; 5(2):181-8.

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 Dartmouth Office of the President
 World Bank Biography
 Profile at the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine 
 Partners In Health 
 Lecture by Jim Yong Kim on the Future of Global Health .
 Interview with Bill Moyers and Dr. Jim Yong Kim, September 11, 2009
 Dartmouth Inauguration Webcast, September 22, 2009 
 
 
 
 
 Boseley, Sarah, "World Bank's Jim Yong Kim: 'I want to eradicate poverty'", The Guardian, 25 July 2012.

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Kelahiran 1959
Tokoh Amerika Serikat keturunan Korea
Dokter Amerika Serikat
Antropolog Amerika Serikat
Alumni Universitas Brown
Anggota American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Alumni Harvard Medical School
Dosen Harvard Medical School
MacArthur Fellow
Partners in Health
Tokoh dari Seoul
Presiden Dartmouth College
Presiden Grup Bank Dunia
Emigran Korea Selatan ke Amerika Serikat
Dokter Korea Selatan
Tokoh Bank Dunia