Julio Frenk
President, University of Miami
Julio Frenk is president of University of Miami, where he is also a professor of public health sciences, health sector management and policy and sociology. Previously, he was dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development. Frenk was Mexico’s health minister from 2000 to 2006, where he introduced comprehensive universal coverage. He was also founding director general of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health, an executive director at the World Health Organization and a senior fellow in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s global health program. In addition to his scholarly production, Frenk has written five novels for children explaining the human body’s functions.
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