Jim Yong Kim
American physician and former president of the World Bank GroupWikipedia
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Oct 22, 2026
Susan MatthewsGUEST
And what he wrote was, it is astonishing that we...
Susan MatthewsGUEST
Go to this college where at that point, Jim Yong Kim was college president.
Susan MatthewsGUEST
He went on to be the president of the World Bank.
Susan MatthewsGUEST
He was a public health professor from Harvard before he came to Dartmouth.
Susan MatthewsGUEST
And what he wrote was, it is astonishing that we...
Susan MatthewsGUEST
Go to this college where at that point, Jim Yong Kim was college president.
Susan MatthewsGUEST
He went on to be the president of the World Bank.
Susan MatthewsGUEST
He was a public health professor from Harvard before he came to Dartmouth.
Susan MatthewsGUEST
And what he wrote was, it is astonishing that we...
Susan MatthewsGUEST
Go to this college where at that point, Jim Yong Kim was college president.
Susan MatthewsGUEST
He went on to be the president of the World Bank.
Susan MatthewsGUEST
He was a public health professor from Harvard before he came to Dartmouth.
Ashwin VasanGUEST
It was still basically in Haiti and Peru and Siberia.
Ashwin VasanGUEST
So pretty small, but it was about to explode, both on the basis of that book, but also on the basis of the Clinton Foundation coming in and expanding into Africa and the 3x5 initiative to expand HIV access, which I ended up going to work on with Jim Kim.
Harlan KrumholzHOST
Just remind me again, what did 3x5 mean? It was...
Ashwin VasanGUEST
To get 3 million people on HIV treatment by the end of 2005, starting in 2003, so two years, from a starting point, this is 3 million people in the developing world, from a starting point of around 400, 450,000, which was, it had a massive influence on the way I think about public health and the way I think about change.
Ashwin VasanGUEST
It was still basically in Haiti and Peru and Siberia.
Ashwin VasanGUEST
So pretty small, but it was about to explode, both on the basis of that book, but also on the basis of the Clinton Foundation coming in and expanding into Africa and the 3x5 initiative to expand HIV access, which I ended up going to work on with Jim Kim.
Harlan KrumholzHOST
Just remind me again, what did 3x5 mean? It was...
Ashwin VasanGUEST
To get 3 million people on HIV treatment by the end of 2005, starting in 2003, so two years, from a starting point, this is 3 million people in the developing world, from a starting point of around 400, 450,000, which was, it had a massive influence on the way I think about public health and the way I think about change.
Alistair BeggGUEST
And we cannot lay the charge solely at the realm of education, but education Post-rationalism has played a huge part in this.
Alistair BeggGUEST
In 1946, the president of Dartmouth, John Sloan Dickey, told the graduating class, quotes, there is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings cannot fix.
Alistair BeggGUEST
That's what he told the graduating class.
Alistair BeggGUEST
That was 1946.
Alistair BeggGUEST
In 2010, referencing the statement made by Dickey in 46, the president, Jim Yong Kim, said to the graduating class of 2010, you are the better human beings that we've all been waiting for.
Alistair BeggGUEST
Really? Really? Have you been in an academic institution lately? Well, you shouldn't really roam around too much, but if you've seen some of the graffiti, And they tell me it's actually true in the military establishments of the United States.
Alistair BeggGUEST
And it is representative of the lostness of it all.