March 12 Discussion with Dr. Jim Kim

Hi everyone,

I'm sure the email below will be of interest to lots of people.

Thanks,

Margret
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Please join us for a special seminar with world-renowned medical and public health pioneer Jim Yong Kim '82 on Wednesday, March 12, from 2:30-4:00 pm.

Jim is former director of the World Health Organization's Department of HIV/AIDS, a co-founder of Partners in Health (www.pih.org, profiled in the Tracy Kidder book, Mountains Beyond Mountains), and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow; and holds appointments with the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has done truly pioneering work in improve health in impoverished communities around the world.

The session will be a unique opportunity for an in-depth conversation with this global leader. Jim will present work on Global Health Delivery that he's undertaking with Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School, followed by discussion with the group. Expertise in global health is not required, and the discussion will yield tremendous learning relevant to many areas of global or community-based work.

Space is limited - please RSVP no later than Weds., March 5, to Wendy Perelman, wendy_perelman@brown.edu.

The seminar will take place at the Population Studies Center, 68 Waterman Street (between Prospect and Brown Streets).

For more background on Jim:
Profile in Brown Alumni Monthly: www.brownalumnimagazine.com/november/december-2006/the-healer.html

Interview in The Lancet: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine/News/kim_profile_lancet.pdf

Hope you can join us!

Roger Nozaki
Director, Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service
Associate Dean of the College
Brown University
Box 1974, 25 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
T: 401/863-1446
F: 401/863-3094
E: roger_nozaki@brown.edu