Jerome Kim is director general at the International Vaccine Institute and an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Public Health at Yonsei University. He served as principal deputy of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, as well as chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis and project manager in the HIV Vaccines Project Management Office for the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity. Kim was a professor in the Department of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.