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Join us for our second Dartmouth International Vaccine Initiative Seminar, with Dr. Jerome H. Kim, Director General, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea, cosponsored by the The Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation and The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.  In-person in 200 Kellogg or register for Zoom link: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/rXAMgzR5QDyn-8_9dPim5g

Dr. Kim is an international expert on the development and evaluation of vaccines and is the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI).  He has unparalleled experience and success in translating innovation to impact – working with key national and international stakeholders, creating a common understanding of the value proposition, developing and executing creative strategies for sustainable growth.  At IVI he led and grew a team whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver safe, effective, and affordable vaccines for Global Health from a small Korea-based international organization to one with a global footprint and diverse and expanding funding. IVI’s oral cholera vaccine is used around the world to prevent this deadly diarrheal disease.  IVI’s typhoid conjugate vaccine, tech-transferred to SK bioscience and PT BioFarma; both have received national approval and the SK vaccine has been prequalified by WHO. Prior to joining IVI, he was the Program Manager for the Army’s Advanced Development Program for HIV vaccines and led the only HIV vaccine trial to show protection against infection (RV144), the identification of correlates from the trial, and analysis of viral sieve effects.  He was also the Principal Deputy of the US Military HIV Research Program doing earlier stage R&D on HIV vaccines and the Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.  Dr. Kim is a Distinguished Visiting Professor, Seoul National University; Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services University (USA) and the Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University; and is an Honorary Professor, University of Rwanda and the University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Kim graduated from the University of Hawaii with High Honors in History and Highest Honors in Biology, winning the Arthur Lyman Dean Prize in the Humanities and the Library Prize in Pacific Islands Area Research.  Dr. Kim received his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine and completed Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Duke University Medical Center.  He has authored over 350 publications and has received numerous awards, including the John Maher Award for Research Excellence, USUHS, 2013; Department of the Army Research and Development Achievement Award for Technical Excellence, 2013; and the Medal of Honor for Civic Merit, Republic of Korea.