Daniel Kim
Professor, Department of Public Health and Health Sciences, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Daniel Kim is Professor in the Department of Public Health and Health Sciences within the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. He is also a core faculty member at the Institute for Experiential AI at the Roux Institute and a faculty affiliate with the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University.
Professor Kim's scholarly work broadly encompasses the social and economic determinants of population health and has been featured inleading venues including Scientific American and Nature Medicine. He has published a number of studies on the area-level effects of socioeconomic factors and other social determinants on health, and his research has been cited over 170,000 times, including by two U.S. senators. His research interests in AI include machine learning, data science, deep learning, and natural language processing, and the application of AI techniques to real-world problems at the intersection between public health and public policy.
Professor Kim is Founder and President of the International Social Epidemiology Society (I-SES), a new global society that aims to facilitate dialogue among those engaged in the research and practice of social epidemiology and the social determinants of health around the world. He also presently serves as a Deputy Editor with the BMJ's Journal of Epidemiology& Community Health and as an Associate Editor with Preventive Medicine and on the editorial boards of PLOS Global Public Health and Social Science & Medicine – Population Health and the advisory board of BMJ Public Health. He previously chaired the Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Special Emphasis Panel at the National Institutes of Health.
Professor Kim completed a medical degree, master's degree in epidemiology, and residency program in public health & preventive medicine at the University of Toronto. He also earned a master of public health degree and doctorate in public health (majoring in social epidemiology) from Harvard University.