January 27, 2005
Global HIV/AIDS treatment
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS Department, will be on campus in February to deliver the second Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture.
Kim will speak on “Antiretroviral Treatment for Three Milllion People in Developing Countries by the End of 2005: Changing Minds and Changing History” at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 8, in room T-625 of the Health Sciences Center. The lecture is free and open to everyone.
While working at the World Health Organization, he is on leave from Harvard Medical School, where he is an associate professor of medicine and medical anthropology and director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change. Kim is a founding trustee of Partners in Health, a Harvard-affiliated non-profit that supports health projects in poor communities in Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti, Russia, Rwanda and the United States.
He recently chaired the WHO working group on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and is the editor of the book Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. In 2003 he received one of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellowships.
The lectureship, endowed by the Gloyd family, was originally established at Children’s Hospital in 1982 and named for Dr. Park Willis Gloyd, longtime chief of the orthopaedics service there. The senior Dr. Gloyd renamed the lectureship in honor of his son, Dr. Stephen Stewart Gloyd, director of the UW International Health Program in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and associate professor of health services. It was transferred to the School of Public Health in 2001.
