Julio Frenk

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 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 & Melinda Gates Foundation’s global health program, among others. Besides his scholarly production, Frenk has written three novels for youngsters explaining the human body’s functions.