This week’s remarkable person is Dr. Jerome Kim. He is the director general of the International Vaccine Institute.
The International Vaccine Institute was established in 1997 as an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Its mission is to: Discover, develop, and deliver safe, effective, and affordable vaccines for global public health.
Dr. Kim has a BA from the University of Hawaii and an MD from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1984. He completed his training in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Duke University Medical Center.
He was the principal deputy and chief at the Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis at the Military HIV Research Program. He also served as project manager for the HIV Vaccines and Advanced Concepts Evaluation Project Management Offices. He led the Army’s Phase III HIV vaccine trial (RV144), the first demonstration that an HIV vaccine could protect against infection. He has authored over 200 publications.
He was named one of “The 50 Most Influential People in Vaccines” in 2014 by the vaccine industry organization Vaccine Nation.
Another of his claims to fame is that we went to the same high school in Hawaii, Iolani. We even had many of the same teachers.
And now, bringing you the straight scoop on vaccines, here is Dr. Jerome Kim.
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Dr. Kim is a true remarkable person.
I love him. Thank you, Guy for making this podcast.
I have learned a lot indeed.
I probably learned more about vaccines, the current pandemic and what might have been if someone like Jerome Kim would have been appointed the US “COVID czar”, or, better yet, if the dynamic duo (Fauci and Kim) had assumed the reins early on! I was sorry when the podcast was over because I had not yet had enough of this “Remarkable” conversation and I plan to listen to it again because I suspect there was much I did not absorb the 1st time. Korea is certainly very fortunate to have wooed a brilliant scientist like Dr. Kim to their shores. What a loss for us here. Someday, when we restore Science and sanity to our government, we may benefit from the hard work and wisdom of this very humble man.