In 2007, we met Dr Jim Yong Kim as he gathered faculty across Harvard and MIT to envision a new field of study in Global Health Delivery. Dr Kim already had an astounding record to build on: a practicing physician and medical anthropologist, he’d put his smarts to practical use as an early partner of Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and Thomas White in building and then continuing to lead and shape the much-admired Partners In Health. Through the years, he has been an inspiring leader, visionary strategist, and highly effective manager who oversaw the growth and development of PIH. An early and enduring insight from PIH’s hard-won experience was that health care delivery could only generate value when accompanied by critical, targeted investments in human resource development, infrastructure, and the diffusion of knowledge.

Patient dying of MDR-TB and HIV and her mother in Lesotho. (c) Open Society Institute/Pep Bonet

This is what we stand for. As today’s World TB Day comes to a close (at least in this part of the world), please take a minute to sign up to one of our expert-led communities on GHDonline.org — two focus on fighting and eradicating this deadly scourge (MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention and TB Infection Control).

And if you have a few more minutes, please read “No One Should Die of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century“, an article in the Huffington Post co-authored with Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, Ph.D, Sc.M, former GHDonline moderator, and currently Director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a Senior TB Specialist at Partners In Health.