JONG-IN KIM
PhD (Seoul National University, Korea)

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Professor Jong–In Kim is a Visiting Fellow at ACERH for 12 months from September 2005, to undertake research on ageing in Australia. He is Professor in the Division of Health and Welfare, College of Social Science, WonKwang University, Korea, and holds a PhD in health economics and public health from the Seoul National University. He has over 17 years teaching experience in public health and health economics at The Graduate School of Health & Environment at WonKwang University. He has also been elected President of the College of Social Science, WonKwang University.

Professor Kim has extensive research experience in health economics and ageing, including costs associated with the elderly and longevity factors of centenarians. He also has consulting experience for government of Korea. He is currently a consulting member of The Presidential Commission on Policy Planning, a consulting member of the Presidential Committee on Government Innovation and Decentralization, and a Civic Environment Inspector with the Ministry of Environment. He is also President of The Korean Society of Health and Welfare. Formerly he was a member of The Presidential Commission on Policy Planning, a co-chairperson of the National Professors' Association for Democracy, and co-chairman of The Union of the National NGO, Korea.

 Professor Kim’s research interests include health economics, costs of ageing, longevity factors of centenarians, the social environment as a health factor for the elderly, health management and health policy, hospital cost management, and cost-effectiveness analysis of health insurance programs for the elderly. As a health economist interested in the promotion of health, his early work focused on finding longevity factors of centenarians and medical costs for those aged 65 years and over. Recently, he has initiated major new approaches to the analysis of the natural environment and psychology of aging in relation to longevity factors, and to cost-effectiveness analysis of health insurance in ageing populations.