Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a physician, medical anthropologist, internationally known expert on tuberculosis and recently appointed president of Dartmouth College, is speaking at Brown University this Tuesday on the subject of global health and human rights.

Kim, 1982 Brown graduate, has 20 years of experience working on improving overall health in developing countries. At the World Health Organization, Kim spent three years earlier this decade overseeing international treatment, prevention and care programs for HIV/AIDS, focusing on initiatives for developing countries.

He is also a founding trustee and the former executive director of Partners in Health, a nonprofit that supports health programs in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho and the United States, focused on poor communities. In addition, he is an expert in tuberculosis.

Kim, currently chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is slated to take office July 1 as the 19th president of Dartmouth College. He has received numerous honors in his career, including a McArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2003. TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006, and U.S. News & World Report named him one of America’s 25 best leaders in 2005.

Kim is delivering the Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes Jr. Lecture in Public Health. The event begins at 4 p.m. in Andrews Dining Hall on the Pembroke Campus at Brown. It is free and open to the public.