Жулио Хосе Френк Мора: Мексикалық дәрігер және саясаткердің өмірбаяны

Mexican physician and politician

Julio José Frenk Mora (born December 20, 1953) is a Mexican physician and sociologist. He has been the president of the University of Miami since 2015. He is the University of Miami's first Hispanic and native Spanish speaking president. At the University of Miami, he is also a professor of public health science at the university's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, professor of health sector management at the university's Herbert Business School, and a professor of sociology at its College of Arts of Sciences. Prior to being appointed University of Miami president, Frenk was dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University from 2009 to 2015 and a professor of public health and international development at Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to his appointments at Harvard University, Frenk was the Mexican government's Secretary of Health from 2002 until 2006.

Frenk was born on December 20, 1952, in Mexico City. His father and grandfather, both of whom were physicians, were Jews who fled to Mexico from Nazi Germany. Frenk received his medical degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City in 1979. He then attend the University of Michigan, where he obtained three graduate degrees, a Masters of Public Health in 1981, a Master of Arts in sociology in 1982, and a joint Doctor of Philosophy in medical care organization and sociology in 1983.

In 1984, Frenk was appointed director of the Centre of Public Health Research in the Ministry of Health of Mexico, a role he held until 1987. Following that, he went on to serve as the founding director general of the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico from 1987 to 1992. From 1995 to 1998, he served as executive vice president of the Mexican Health Foundation, a private non profit organization, and director of the organization's Centre for Health and the Economy. Frenk also has served in several academic roles, including as a senior researcher at the National Institute of Public Health and as adjunct professor of medicine and national researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. In 1992–1993, he was visiting professor at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University's Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. In 1993, he was an advisor on health reform for the government of Colombia, working alongside health economist Felicia Knaul. The two married in 1995, and settled in Mexico. In 1998, Frenk was appointed executive director of evidence and information for policy at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.

Following his service as Mexico's minister of health, Frenk was tapped to serve as senior fellow in the global health program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he counseled the foundation on global health issues and strategies. Frenk subsequently served as dean of the faculty at Harvard University's Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health from 2009 until 2015. While at Harvard, he was also the T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, a joint appointment made with the Harvard Kennedy School. Under Frenk's leadership, Harvard's School of Public Health received its largest ever gift of $350 million and was renamed Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in 2014. In addition to his role as dean of Harvard School of Public Health, Frenk co chaired, along with Lincoln Chen, the Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, which published its final report in The Lancet in 2010. The report recommended that governments place the same emphasis on fighting cancer that they place on infectious diseases like AIDS and malaria. He served on the High Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development, co chaired by Joaquim Chissano and Tarja Halonen, from 2012 to 2014. In 2013, Fenk joined Vicente Fox and others in campaigning for marijuana legalization at a series of events in the United States and Mexico. In 2015, Frenk co edited a collection of non fiction essays on the subject of global health, "To Save Humanity," which included work from Michelle Bachelet, Larry Summers, Elton John, Frenk, and others.

On April 13, 2015, the University of Miami announced the appointment of Frenk as the university's sixth president, succeeding Donna Shalala. He was officially inaugurated on January 29, 2016. In 2015, Frenk's salary as University of Miami president was $1.14 million. Since 2022, Frenk has been a member of the Commission for Universal Health convened by Chatham House and co chaired by Helen Clark and Jakaya Kikwete.

The Julio Frenk Professorship of Public Health Leadership was established at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University with part of a September 2016, $10 million gift.