CAPT Curi Kim is a career medical officer in the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service, currently serving as senior advisor for the Bureau of Health Workforce’s Division of Medicine and Dentistry within the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). She is the Designated Federal Officer for the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME). This federal advisory committee provides advice and recommendations to the HHS Secretary and Congress on medical education and the physician workforce. Prior to joining HRSA in 2022, she was the Director for the Division of Refugee Health (DRH) at the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS’ Administration for Children and Families, where she was the first career medical officer in the Agency, the first medical director of ORR’s DRH, and the founder of ORR’s Division of Health for Unaccompanied Children. Her previous federal service also includes many roles within HHS’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine.

CAPT Kim received her BS and MPH degrees from the University of Michigan and her MD from Wayne State University. She completed residencies in both family medicine and preventive medicine at the University of Michigan and is board certified in each specialty. She continues to see patients as a volunteer physician at the Arlington Free Clinic in Virginia.