Education:

• PhD (Health Policy; Specialized Area: Global Health, Track: Decision Sciences), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2006
• MPH (Health Policy and Management; Health Economics). Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, 2000
• BS (Pharmacy). College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, 1995

(Present) Academic/Professional Appointments:

• Associate Professor of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, 2018-
• Director, Center for Global Health Research, Seoul National University, 2021-
• Vice Director, Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, 2022-2023
• Deputy Vice President of International Affairs, Seoul National University, 2023-2024

Work Experiences:

• Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, 2016-2018
• Assistant Professor, Depart of Management, Policy and Community Health, University of Texas School of Public Health, 2012-2015
• Consultant, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Division of Bacterial Diseases), 2011-2012
• Research Scientist, School of Public Health, Harvard University, 2008-2010
• Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, 2006-2008

Reasearch Areas of Interest:

• Primary Area: Global health policy (incl. governance, financing, and law for global health)
• Specific Areas of Interest:

• Global health inequity
• Gender health inequity
• Refugee health
• Diseases of poverty and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
• Planning and evaluation of health programs in resource-poor settings
• Health decision sciences
• Vaccine economics
• Mathematical disease modeling
• International development cooperation and health aid

Publications:

• Please refer to the Google Scholar page for a list of journal publications

Contact Info :

• Address: 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, South Korea
• Tel: +82-2-880-2768
• Email: sykim22@snu.ac.kr