Dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health Speaks
I don’t know how I missed this link yesterday in the NY Times. It’s by Julio Frenk, Mexico’s Minister of Health from 2000-2006 and now Dean of the School of Public Health at Harvard.
I don’t know how I missed this link yesterday in the NY Times. It’s by Julio Frenk, Mexico’s Minister of Health from 2000-2006 and now Dean of the School of Public Health at Harvard.
This is a good article.
Before he was Minister of Health in Mexico from 2000-2006, Julio Frenk was Director of the Mexican Institute for Public Health (INSP), where I worked in 2007. He seemed to be well thought of by everyone there I spoke to, which is not so usual in public organizations in Mexico.
Having commented that this is a good article, which I think it is, I came across a convincing counter-argument that the Mexican public health system was not sufficiently prepared and failed to act on early warning cases on
http://mexicoparalosmexicanos.blogspot.com/2009/05/controversia-sobre-la-preparacion-de.html
This is also worth reading (It’s in Spanish)