Dr. Kee B. Park
Director, Korea Health Policy Project, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Kee B. Park is a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of Korea Health Policy Project, which focuses on how geopolitical factors influence the health of the North Korean people. He has published extensively about the relationships among international security, global health, humanitarian assistance, and health diplomacy, in the North Korean context.
As the Director of North Korea Program at the Korean American Medical Association, he has visited North Korea over 20 times to work alongside North Korean doctors. His last visit was in November, 2019. In his capacity as a Member of the Expert Advisory Panel for Surgical Care at the World Health Organization, he also supports the DPRK’s national surgical care strengthening efforts though the Ministry of Public Health.
He is a member of the National Committee on North Korea and the Council of Korean Americans. He received his MD from Rutgers Medical School, MPH from Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and neurosurgical training at Temple University Hospital. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
