Global health leader will head Harvard School of Public Health
An internationally renowned and respected health leader will become head of the Harvard School of Public Health, the university said today.
Dr. Julio Frenk (left), former minister of health of Mexico, will become dean of Harvard's faculty of public health in January, succeeding Barry Bloom, Harvard President Drew Faust said in an e-mail to the public health school staff.
In 2006, Frenk was a finalist to lead the World Health Organization, where he had previously been a senior official. He also worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation after founding the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico.
Frenk has Harvard ties, having delivered the commencement speech to the School of Public Health in 2001 and 2007. He has also been a visiting professor and an advisor to the Harvard Initiative for Global Health.
"In these and other leadership roles, he has emerged over the course of his distinguished career as one of the most thoughtful, insightful, and eloquent exponents of the power of public health to change lives for the better," Faust said in her e-mail. "He has remained closely engaged with the academy, including the HSPH, and has played a vital role at the crossroads of academic research and practice."
Bloom will remain at the school he has led since 1999, with the title of university distinguished service professor, and continue his research related to global health, the university said when he announced last year that he would step down.
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El Dr. Julio Frenk nuevo Dean de la Escuela de Salud Pública de Harvard es un conocido y respetado líder internacional de la Salud Pública, su nombramiento, se presenta como una oportunidad para muchas Escuelas de Salud Pública, sobre todo de los países en desarrollo, de poder compartir investigaciones y experiencias a través de tan prestigiada institución, la visión de la Salud Globalizada del Dr. Frenk así lo indica.
Dr. Julio Frenk, the new Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, is a well-known and respected international leader in public health. His appointment may be an opportunity for many schools of public health in developing countries to share in the investigations and experiences of such a prestigious institution and in Dr. Frenk's vision of global health.