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Fellow Partners in Health co-founder praises Jim Yong Kim nomination

By Chelsea Conaboy

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 23, 2012

Co-founders of Partners in Health, doctors Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim also worked together on the World Health Organization’s efforts to address drug-resistant tuberculosis and as the first leaders of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities. Farmer issued a statement calling Kim’s nomination to lead the World Bank “an inspired nomination.”

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