Dr. Julio Frenk Mora

Doctor Julio Frenk Mora was born in Mexico City on December 20, 1953. In 1979 he graduated as a surgeon from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). At the University of Michigan he earned three advanced degrees: Master of Public Health (1981), Master of Sociology (1982), and Doctorate of Health Care Organization and Sociology (1983).

He was founding director of the National Institute of Public Health, of the SSA, based in Cuernavaca, Morelos. This institute has been the engine that has given impetus to the “new” Public Health of Mexico, which has spread to the three levels of government in the 32 federal entities and to the large institutions of the health sector (SSA, IMSS, ISSSTE, PEMEX , Armed Forces and others).

His written introduction includes twenty-three books, fifteen monographs, seventy-seven book chapters, 161 articles in academic journals, and 127 articles in cultural magazines and newspapers. His academic publications have been cited over 12,800 times. Among his books there are also four novels for children and young people, which explain the functioning of the human body.

Considered one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between globalization and health, his research has focused mainly on health systems. He has studied demographic and epidemiological transitions, analyzing their implications for public policies regarding changes in the dominant patterns of health and disease.

Between 1995 and 1998 he was executive vice president of the Mexican Health Foundation, where he produced a critical analysis of the health system, which is contained in his book Economy and health that offers comprehensive reform options.

Between 1988 and 2000 he was executive director of Scientific Evidence and Information for Policies at the World Health Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, a position from which he guided the design of public policies and the strengthening of national capacities to improve the performance of health systems globally.

He was Secretary of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, a period during which the foundations of universal coverage in terms of social protection in health were laid with the creation of Seguro Popular, thus expanding access to quality services and financial safeguards for more of 53 million people, until then excluded from social security.

Between 2007 and 2008 he directed “conto Senior Fellow” the Global Health Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he offered advice on strategies and programs. In the same period, he was also executive president of the Carso Health Institute, a philanthropic organization dedicated to stimulating innovation in Latin American health systems.

As of August 2015, he is the President of the University of Miami, where he has also been conferred an academic appointment as Senior Lecturer in Public Health Sciences in the School of Medicine. Prior to assuming his current position, he served for nearly seven years as dean of the Harvard University School of Public Health, a joint appointment with the same university’s Kennedy School of Government, making him the person who has ever raised the most money in donations. for that institution.

Among other recognitions; he has received honorary doctorates from the University of Alberta in Canada, the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and York University in Toronto, Canada. In September 2008, he received the Clinton Foundation Global Citizen Award for changing “the way service providers and decision makers around the world think about health.” Recently, he is a firm recipient of the Edward A. Bouchet Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Diversity in Higher Education awarded by Yale University and entered El Colegio Nacional de México on May 24, 2017.

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