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SUMMARY:Public Health without Borders:  The Role of Knowledge in an Interd
 ependent World - Dr Julio Frenk\, President-Elect\, University of Miami\; 
 Dean\, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
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CONTACT:Lucy Lloyd
DESCRIPTION:About Dr Frenk\n\nSince January 2009\, Dr. Julio Frenk has bee
 n Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health—now the Har
 vard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—and T & G Angelopoulos Professor 
 of Public Health and International Development\, a joint appointment with 
 the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. \n\nThe University of Miami anno
 unced in April 2015 that Dr. Frenk will be the University’s next preside
 nt\, taking up his post in the autumn of 2015.\n\nDr. Frenk was the Minist
 er of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006\, where he introduced a program o
 f comprehensive national health insurance\, known as Seguro Popular\, whic
 h expanded access to health care for tens of millions of previously uninsu
 red Mexicans.\n\nDr. Frenk was the founding director-general of the Nation
 al Institute of Public Health in Mexico\, and in 1998\, he joined the Worl
 d Health Organization (WHO) as executive director in charge of Evidence an
 d Information for Policy\, WHO’s first-ever unit explicitly charged with
  developing a scientific foundation for health policy to achieve better ou
 tcomes.\n\nMore recently\, he served as a senior fellow in the global heal
 th program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and as president of the 
 Carso Health Institute in Mexico City. He is the founding chair of the boa
 rd of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of
  Washington. He also co-chaired the Commission on the Education of Health 
 Professionals for the 21st Century\, which published its influential repor
 t in The Lancet in 2010\, triggering follow-up initiatives throughout the 
 world.\n\nDr. Frenk holds a medical degree from the National University of
  Mexico\, as well as a master of public health and a joint doctorate in Me
 dical Care Organization and in Sociology from the University of Michigan. 
 He is a member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine\, American Academy of Art
 s and Sciences\, and National Academy of Medicine of Mexico. He holds the 
 Clinton Global Citizen Award (2008) for changing “the way practitioners 
 and policy makers across the world think about health.”\n
LOCATION:Martin Cohen Lecture Theatre\, Li Ka Shing Centre\, Cancer Resear
 ch UK Cambridge Institute
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