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Mental Health Moment: Practical Solutions for You, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
DR. JIM YONG KIM, whose career includes leading large-scale initiatives to tackle tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, has turned his expertise to the mental health crisis that has emerged from the permacrisis, the overlapping burdens of climate change, social inequality and political instability.
The drain on our collective wellbeing is well documented — from ballooning rates depression and anxiety, especially among young people, to rising suicide rates, and a dearth of adequate care for those with severe mental illness. But these problems are also solvable, says Dr. Kim.
He presents compelling analysis of how proven medical interventions merged with broader social movements to fundamentally alter the course of past pandemics. And he makes the case that a similar mix of science and activism must come together to tackle mental health. The current challenge is one of mental health care delivery, with meaningful interventions that are both medical and social. We now have the knowledge, tools and experience to deliver much better outcomes at scale.
With decades of experience as a leader at Partners In Health, the World Health Organization and Harvard Medical School, and then as the president of both Dartmouth College and the World Bank Group, Dr. Kim offers unique insight into the challenges and potential benefits of a mental health movement that would transform the stigma and poor treatment outcomes that have plagued the field.
He’ll present his vision to energize this movement, and give practical advice on how audience members can improve mental health for themselves, their families, their communities, and the world.
Investing in the World: A Conversation about Human Capital, Infrastructure, and Global Economics with Dr. Jim Yong Kim
In this talk, DR. JIM YONG KIM discusses the importance of investments in the poorest communities, and how modern financial and business models are transforming the effectiveness of investments in the developing world. His life's work has been to fund and execute innovative programs to address infrastructure needs, prevent pandemics, and help the millions of people forcibly displaced from their homes by climate shocks, conflict, and violence. As a former President of the World Bank and partner at Global Infrastructure Partners, Dr. Kim discusses the importance of infrastructure and human capital in emerging markets to tackle the complex and interconnected issues of global health, economic prosperity and climate change.
Climate Change and Global Economics
After his tenure as President of the World Bank, DR. JIM YONG KIM joined Global Infrastructure Partners to invest in emerging markets to improve quality of life, economic prosperity, and health, and to mitigate the effects of climate change in those communities. Addressing issues as varied as sustained drought, plagues, and internet access are all part of his mission to invest in human capital and the prevailing issues in developing countries. In this talk, Dr. Kim addresses how the right economic investments can combat climate change, and as a result improve the health, economic prosperity and security of the developing world.
Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
In this talk, Former President of the World Bank DR. JIM YONG KIM discusses the world's most pressing global health problems, which are also economic and global security risks. He shares his insights from his decades of work serving the world's poorest and most desperate communities as a Co-Founder of Partners in Health, a global health non-profit whose mission is to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need and to serve as an antidote to despair. He inspires and challenges with the question that inspired his viral TED Talk: Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life?
Dr. Jim Yong Kim speaks on technology, governance, and politics
How do we grow governmental and social change engineering into culture to achieve success? Why are the issues of poverty, climate, and disease still major obstacles to the struggles for change? Is government communication at the global level a reason to abort successful change efforts?
Public health expert Dr. JIM YONG KIM is primed to comment on the potential impact of campaign platforms if implemented. As former president of the World Bank, Dr. Kim understands the nuances of working towards a shared vision of resource access and equity. Reflecting on his time spent working to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges, Dr. Kim provides audiences with an accessible overview of our current situation and solutions to the many global challenges we face. Sky News Arabia’s anchor said that speaking to Dr. Kim felt inspiring, affirming that “we can really achieve some progress and make the world a better place for the next generations.”
Jim Yong Kim (@JimYongKim), M.D., PhD, is Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners, a fund that invests in infrastructure projects across several sectors around the world.
From July 2012 to February 2019, Kim served as the 12th President of the World Bank Group. Soon after he assumed that position, the organization established two goals to guide its work: to end extreme poverty by 2030; and to boost shared prosperity, focusing on the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries.
During Kim’s tenure, the World Bank Group supported the development priorities of countries at levels never seen outside of a financial crisis. Along with partners, the World Bank achieved two successive, record replenishments of the International Development Association (IDA), the institution’s fund for the poorest countries, which has enabled the Bank to greatly increase its work in areas suffering from fragility, conflict, and violence.
In 2018, the World Bank Group’s shareholders approved a historic capital increase for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), which offers sovereign loans to middle-income countries, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Bank Group’s private sector arm. The capital increase will allow the Bank Group to help countries reach their development goals while responding to crises such as climate change, pandemics, fragility, and underinvestment in human capital around the world.
The World Bank Group also launched several innovative financial instruments, including facilities to address infrastructure needs, prevent pandemics, and help the millions of people forcibly displaced from their homes by climate shocks, conflict, and violence. The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) made its first cash grant in 2018 to support frontline Ebola response efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of January 2019, the Bank Group is working with the United Nations and leading technology companies to implement the Famine Action Mechanism, which uses technology such as artificial intelligence to detect warning signs earlier and prevent famines before they begin.
A physician and anthropologist, Kim’s career has revolved around health, education, and improving the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable. He was born in South Korea to parents who had fled the violence of the Korean War and grew up in Iowa, where his father was a practicing dentist and his mother was a philosopher and theologian. Kim graduated from Brown University, then became one of the first students to study jointly for a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in anthropology at Harvard University.
While at Harvard, Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a non-profit medical organization that provides healthcare to poor communities on four continents. With Partners In Health, Kim developed treatment programs for complex, deadly diseases such as multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis and AIDS in the poorest areas of Haiti, Peru, and several other countries. From 2003 to 2005, Kim served as Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department. He led WHO’s “3 by 5” initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which greatly expanded access to antiretroviral medication in developing countries.
Following his service at WHO, Kim was Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, 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 Harvard School of Public Health. In 2009, he was named the 17th President of Dartmouth College, where he served until he was nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the World Bank Group. Kim was the first leader of the Bank Group who did not come from the financial or political sectors and the first who had personal experience tackling development issues in poor countries.
Kim holds a B.A. from Brown University, and an M.D. and PhD in medical anthropology from Harvard University. He received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, was recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” byU.S. News & World Report, and was named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”
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