Hani Kim leads the RIGHT Foundation as the Executive Director since 2021 with 19 years of experience in conducting biomedical research in academia and 9 years of experience in funding global health R&D. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto and post-doctoral training at the Max-Planck Institute of Immunology and an MPH at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she later served as a Research Associate. Prior to joining the RIGHT foundation, she developed and managed portfolios of vaccine discovery grants and molecular surveillance grants at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for six years. Hani has published articles in translational medical research and in the political origins of health inequity. Her recent articles include ‘We need people’s WHO to solve vaccine inequity, and we need it now’, ‘The sociopolitical context of the COVID-19 response in South Korea’, and ‘A critical assessment of the ideological underpinnings of current practice in global health and their historical origins’.