Jane J. Kim, MS, PhD, is the K.T. Li Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Kim served as Dean for Academic Affairs at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for 5½ years, from February 2020 through August 2025, and as Interim Dean of the Faculty for six months in 2023. Dr. Kim’s research focuses on the development and application of mathematical modeling methods to evaluate health policy issues, with a strong interest in women’s health.  She has led the evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of prevention strategies against cervical cancer and other HPV-related diseases for informed decision making globally, working closely with the US National Cancer Institute, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and most recently, the US Preventive Services Task Force on cervical cancer screening guidelines. Her methodological interests include capitalizing on different methods of operations research to inform health decision-making in low-resource settings, such as packaging health services at opportune moments and quantifying the impact of budget and human resource constraints on program effectiveness. She holds an MS and PhD from Harvard University.