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Tapped in 2000 to serve as health minister by Mexico’s newly-elected president, Vicente Fox, Frenk embarked on a campaign to provide care for the 50 million Mexicans who, at the time, were uninsured. His efforts led to the establishment of the “Seguro Popular” initiative, a public fund that paid for a number of health programs...
...credit, Bloom said, Frenk consistently consulted public health faculty at schools like Harvard as he proceeded with his public health reforms, making sure to back his policy decisions with scientific and empirical evidence...
...Frenk will assume the deanship of the School of Public Health in January...
...addition to previously serving as the health minister in Mexico, Frenk has been a senior fellow of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that, he was considered a finalist for the director generalship of the World Health Organization, even winning the endorsement of the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet...
Bloom, who will step down as dean after a decade-long tenure, expressed nothing but confidence in his successor, noting that Frenk will add “a huge amount of real life experience” to the work of the school...