Susan C. Kim is an assistant research professor in the department of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and the executive director of the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact at Georgetown University.
Previously, Kim served in a number of different capacities at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, including deputy director, project director, project manager, and manager of grants and communications. In the latter role, she managed the institute’s development activities, which included strategic planning, grant development and writing, and marketing and branding. She started at the O’Neill Institute as a law fellow in 2008, where she worked on a broad range of projects in health law and policy including emergency preparedness, food safety regulation, global health governance, infectious disease control, and the implementation of the World Health Organization’s revised International Health Regulations.
In 2011, Kim was an external consultant to the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State. There, she supported the government’s engagement in the Comprehensive Reform Working Group of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She also provided analysis on legislative issues pertaining to the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a volunteer for the 2008 Obama-Biden transition.
Kim holds a J.D. from the University of Connecticut, an M.PH. in health management and policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and an MBA from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.