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Jim Yong Kim (Korean: 김용; born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (김용/金墉), is an American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019. A global health leader, Kim was formerly the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health before serving as the President of Dartmouth College from 2009 to 2012, becoming the first Asian American president of an Ivy League institution. Kim was named the world's 50th most powerful person by Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013. Background Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1959, Jim Yong Kim immigrated with his family to the U.S. at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. His father taught dentistry at the University of Iowa, while his mother received her PhD in philosophy. Kim attended Muscatine High School, where he was valedictorian, class president, and played both quarterback for the football team and point guard on the basketball team. After a year and a half at the University of Iowa, he transferred to Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in human biology in 1982. He earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991, and a PhD in anthropology at Harvard University in 1993. Career Partners in Health (1987–2003) Kim, Paul Farmer, Todd McCormack, Thomas J. White, and Ophelia Dahl co-founded Partners In Health (PIH) in 1987. The organization began with radical new, community-focused health care programs in Haiti, which provided treatments based on local needs and trained community members to implement them. By the early 1990s, the program in Haiti was serving more than 100,000 people. It achieved success treating infectious diseases at low cost, spending $150 to $200 to cure tuberculosis patients in their homes, treatment that would have cost $15,000 to $20,000 in a U.S. hospital. Kim was instrumental in designing treatment protocols and making deals for cheaper, more effective drugs. The PIH model was expanded to Peru in 1994. By 1998, successful results curing both common and serious ailments prompted the World Health Organization to embrace the model and support the adaptation of community-based care for impoverished communities around the world. Particular success in treating multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) prompted international organizations to rededicate efforts to the eradication of the disease, and in June 2002, the World Health Organization adopted prescriptions for dealing with the disease that were virtually the same as PIH had used in Peru. Kim's work with PIH to treat MDR-TB was the first large-scale attempt to treat the disease in a poor country, and the efforts have been replicated in more than 40 countries around the world. PIH employs more than 18,000 people in 11 countries. Kim left the organization as executive director in 2003. Kim's work with Partners in Health is documented in the 2017 film Bending the Arc. World Health Organization (2003–2006) Kim left PIH in 2003 to join the World Health Organization (WHO) as an adviser to the director-general. In March 2004, he was appointed as director of WHO's HIV/AIDS department, after having success creating programs to fight the disease at PIH. 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. This included an ambitious "3x5 initiative" designed to put three million people in developing countries on AIDS treatment by the end of 2005. The goal was not met until 2007, but according to the WHO, served to push the treatment strategy for AIDS in Africa further and faster than could have otherwise been hoped. As of 2012, the program has treated more than 7 million Africans with HIV. Harvard University (1993–2009) Beginning in 1993, Kim served as a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, eventually holding professorships in medicine, social medicine and human rights. At the time of his departure in 2009, Kim was chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, known internally as "The Four Pillars" a term and concept taken from his earlier WHO work with HIV/AIDS (the 3x5 program). During his time at Harvard, Kim published numerous articles for leading academic and scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Science, and others; and contributed to several books. An expert on tuberculosis, Kim also chaired or served on a number of committees on international TB policy. Dartmouth College (2009–2012) In March 2009, Kim was named the 17th president of Dartmouth College, becoming the first Asian-American president of an Ivy League institution. He oversaw the development of several innovative programs at Dartmouth, utilizing his past experience in health care and international affairs. In January 2010, Kim helped partner Dartmouth students and faculty with Partners In Health and other organizations to respond to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, forming the Dartmouth Haiti Response. The initiative resulted in over $1 million in donations, the delivery of 18 tons of medical supplies and 25 volunteer medical professionals to Haiti, as well as hundreds of student volunteers contributing on campus. In April 2010, Kim launched the National College Health Improvement Project (NCHIP), which convenes a number of expert institutions to develop quantitative methods to address student health issues. The project launched its inaugural program, an effort to address binge drinking, in April 2011. In May 2010, Kim helped secure a $35 million anonymous grant to establish the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. The Center creates a groundbreaking new field of graduate study, fostering international collaboration between researchers and medical practitioners to design, implement, and scale new models of high-quality low-cost care. In 2012, following considerable concern and an extended effort by Kim to address sexual violence on campus, Dartmouth adopted a new campus-wide initiative to educate students on the importance of bystander intervention in sexual assault cases as part of a larger Sexual Assault Awareness Program. Controversies during tenure In 2011, Kim was criticized for refusing to release the college's budget, prompting the passage of a resolution by faculty demanding more details. He answered this criticism by releasing a large supplementary report on the budget and holding a public meeting with faculty, who expressed satisfaction with the response. But he did not address a Student Assembly request for access to information about all budget items exceeding $10,000..... Discover the Yong Kim popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Yong Kim books.
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The Dictators
Jules Archer & Brianna DuMontHistory has shown that dictators often share similarities in the ways they come to power, hold power, and topple from power. The Dictators is a fascinating presentation of eighteen...
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Kim Ji-young, nacida en 1982
Cho Nam-JooSu nombre es Kim Jiyoung. Tiene 33 años y el nombre más común de Corea. Su historia ha incendiado Asia entera.«Ni siquiera yo sé si me casaré o si tendré hijos. O puede que me muer...
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Finding Junie Kim
Ellen OhFor fans of Inside Out and Back Again and Amina’s Voice comes a breathtaking story of family, hope, and survival from Ellen Oh, cofounder of We Need Diverse Boo...
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Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim
Patricia ParkA multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, and even her own home. A hilarious, poignant, and powerful YA novel fro...
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Seoul Fortress, Images from the Trail
Young Woo Park, Jinseong Kim & Chan Goo ParkTake a virtual guide of Seoul Fortress, which is a wall that encircles the ancient part of Seoul. Over 150 Pages of HD images! (Written in Korean) 600년이 넘는 시간동안 한민족의 수도 서울을 둘...
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Becoming Kim Jong Un
Jung H. PakA groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea’s Kim Jong Unfrom his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trumpby a leading American expert ...
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The Getaway
Lamar Giles“Timely, thrilling, and gripping from start to finish. An absolute pageturner.” Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is LyingJay is living his best l...
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That Was Then...
Melody CarlsonThis Is Now It’s Kim’s senior year and, while everyone’s looking forward to graduation, she’s got so much going on she can barely make it through the day. Natalie, pregnant with B...
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Kim
T Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper“This strong entry in the series is a good choice for readers looking for books about friendship, identity, and LGBTQ issues.” School Library JournalWhen we last saw Oryon Small he...
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Miss Independent
Nicole LapinWall Street Journal BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author of Rich Bitch and renowned money expert Nicole Lapin makes investing accessible and fun so women can ...
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Kim Possible Junior Novel
Disney BooksEnjoy the musthave junior novelization of the allnew Disney Channel Original Movie Kim Possible, a live action film that follows the titular hero who saves the world from evil vill...
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Ashes of Gold
J. ElleIn the “thrilling…masterful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicole Yoon calls “bold, inventiv...
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The Supervillain Field Manual
King Oblivion, Matt D. Wilson & Adam WallentaWith so much good out there, the time is now to take off those henchmen training wheels and become a fullfledged supervillain! With lessons from the founder and overlord of the Int...
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Lizard of the World
Jinhyeok ChoiLizards are the most diverse group of the Squamate reptiles scattered across all continents except Antarctica. Although most lizards generally share similar anatomical and physiolo...
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Muffled
Jennifer GennariA young girl learns how to cope with her noise sensitivity and step outside of her comfort zone in this “thoughtful” (Beth Turley, author of If This Were a Story and The Last Tree ...
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How to Murder Your Life
Cat MarnellFrom the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescriptio...
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Life Inside My Mind
Jessica Burkhart“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” Booklist (starred review)“[A] muchneeded, enlightening book.” School Library Jo...
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Not a Drop to Drink
Mindy McGinnisFans of classic frontier survival stories, as well as readers of dystopian literature, will enjoy this futuristic story where water is worth more than gold. New York Times bestsell...
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Mut zur Freiheit
Yeonmi ParkYeonmi Park träumte nicht von der Freiheit, als sie im Alter von erst 13 Jahren aus Nordkorea floh. Sie wusste nicht einmal, was Freiheit ist. Alles, was sie wusste war, dass sie u...
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The Adventures of Kim Possible
Disney BooksThe musthave chapter book detailing four of Kim's most classic topsecret missions is out just in time for the allnew Disney Channel Original Movie Kim Possible, a live action film ...
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The Ghost
Jefferson Morley"The best book ever written about the strangest CIA chief who ever lived." Tim Weiner, National Book Awardwinning author of Legacy of AshesA revelatory new biography of the sinist...
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Kim
Rudyard Kipling & Pankaj MishraSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeRudyard Kipling’s Kim is the tale of an Irish orphan raised as an Indian vagabond on the rough streets of co...
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The Ice Chips and the Stolen Cup
Roy MacGregor & Kerry MacGregorThe Ice Chips have time travel down to a science . . . almost. After Ekamjeet “Edge” Singh misses out on their most recent adventure, he convinces his teammates to take another lea...
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Night of the Living Queers
Shelly Page, Alex Brown, Kalynn Bayron, Vanessa Montalban, Rebecca Kim Wells, Kosoko Jackson, Trang Thanh Tran, Maya Gittelman, Em X. Liu, Tara Sim, Ayida Shonibar, Ryan Douglass & Sara FarizanNight of the Living Queers is a YA horror anthology that explores a night when anything is possible, exclusively featuring queer authors of color putting fresh spins on classic hor...
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The Supervillain Handbook
King Oblivion, Matt D. Wilson & Adam WallentaLooking for a way out of the rat race? Tired of your hohum, workaday life? Have an inexplicable love of turning human beings into inanimate objects? Then professional supervillainy...
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A Kim Jong-Il Production
Paul FischerBefore becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim JongIl ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer an...
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Falling Up
Melody CarlsonAnswer Girl Has a Zillion Questions. And Zero Answers Kim Peterson, the Just Ask Jamie “answer girl” is about plum out of them. As if losing her mother to cancer wasn’t enough, th...
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Getting Rid Of Mister Kitchen
Charles HigsonFrom the author of the latest official James Bond novel'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham'Very funny and utterly unstoppable' The Times'A sizzlingly pace...
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In the Shadow of the Sun
Anne Sibley O'BrienHatchet in North Korea: A sister and brother go on the run with explosive forbidden photographs in this gripping and timely survival adventure.North Korea is known as the most repr...
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Last of the Talons
Sophie KimEpic Reads Pick for The 30 MustRead YA Books for the Rest of 2022BookRiot Pick for 12 Amazing AsiaInspired Fantasy Books“Last of the Talons is a stunning blend of dark romance and ...
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Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Charles HigsonFrom the author of the latest official James Bond novel'Charlie Higson's new book will certainly get you through the night, though you may not get a lot of sleep...' Mark Billingha...