Conversations in Global Health: Health and Human Capital

On October 2, the Stanford King Center on Global Development held a Conversations in Global Health: Health and Human Capital featuring Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President in conversation with Professor Paul Wise, and moderated by Senior Associate Dean Michele Barry.

Investing in people through nutrition, health care, quality education, jobs and skills helps build human capital, which is key to ending extreme poverty and creating more inclusive societies. While these investments begin in the early years of life, they lay the foundation for both adult prosperity and resilience. That’s why the World Bank Group is working on a global Human Capital Project– an ambitious effort to accelerate more and better investments in people around the world.
 
The project will include an index that reflects countries’ investment in the human capital of the next generation. It will later expand to cover the stock of human capital in a country. Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the role of the index in spearheading the growth and competitiveness of developing countries’ economies.

Conversations in Global Health also explored a speaker’s personal journey: co-founder of Partners in Health, Dr. Kim dove into his path from a physician and anthropologist, to Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department, to President of the World Bank Group. Stanford Global Health faculty leader Dr. Paul Wise, Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health, interviewed Dr. Kim on his personal and professional ambition to end poverty by 2030 and boost shared prosperity.
 
Light refreshments were served following the event.
 
Event Sponsor(s): Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health; Stanford King Center on Global Development