Kim Sun-min (; born 24 May 1964) is a South Korean health care expert and politician currently serving as Acting Leader of the

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since December 2024. Previously, she served as the President of Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) from April 2020 to March 2023. She was the first woman to lead HIRA since its creation in 2000. Before being promoted as its 10th president, Kim was the Executive Director of Planning for HIRA, the agency's ''de facto'' vice-president. Kim's background consists primarily of work in various inter-government and government institutions. She was a senior researcher at Korea Health Industry Development Institute from 1999 to 2001 and human rights researcher at

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from 2001 to 2004. She took numerous roles in HIRA since 2006 when she was first joined the institution as a member of its Review and Assessment Committee. She also worked as a senior technical officer at

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's Department of Service Delivery and Safety from 2016 to 2018. Kim represented HIRA and Korea at

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Health Care Quality and Outcome (HCQO) Working Group from 2009 and became its chair in 2018 becoming the first Asian-country-national and first woman to lead the HCQO Working Group. She holds three degrees from

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- M.D and master's and doctorate in preventative medicine. She was previously an assistant professor at

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and affiliate professor at

Catholic University of Korea The Catholic University of Korea () is a private Roman Catholic university in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It was established in 1855. The Catholic University of Korea operates campuses in Seoul and in the neighboring Bucheon. The uni ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Sunmin 1964 births Living people South Korean government officials World Health Organization officials People from Seoul Seoul National University alumni Academic staff of the Catholic University of Korea