Five facts about Jim Yong Kim Kim has an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard. He received a coveted MacArthur grant in 2003. He was born in 1959 in South Korea, moved with his family to the United States at age 5 and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. His father, a dentist, taught at the University of Iowa. Kim was quarterback of the Muscatine High School football team, and was also class president and valedictorian, ranking top academically in the graduating class. He was director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization and developed a key treatment for a form of drug-resistant tuberculosis while working in Peru in the mid-1990s. Kim was executive director of Partners in Health (PIH), which serves impoverished communities in Haiti, Peru, and elsewhere. He co-founded the organization Partners in Health with Paul Farmer, who was a classmate at Harvard Medical School. The work of PIH received wide publicity through the book Mountains Beyond Mountains.