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The Miami
Vol. 93, Issue 48 | April 16 - April 19, 2015
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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI IN CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, SINCE 1929
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Harvard dean of public health to replace Shalala PRESIDENTIAL RESUME PLACE OF BIRTH: Mexico City DATE OF BIRTH: Dec. 20, 1953 NATIONALITY: Mexican and Spanish SPOUSE: Felicia Knaul, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative
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ERIKA GLASS // MANAGING NEWS EDITOR WARM WELCOME: Dr. Julio Frenk, dean of the faculty at Harvard’s public health school, was confirmed as the University of Miami’s sixth president. He replaces Donna E. Shalala, who will step down at the end of the academic year.
Frenk meets faculty, student leaders BY ALEXANDER GONZALEZ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Dr. Julio Frenk was confirmed as the University of Miami’s sixth president and first Hispanic president on Monday. Soon after the press conference, the current dean of faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health was given a Hurricanes welcome by the UM band, dancers dressed in orange and green, and of course, Sebastian the Ibis. But this was not his first time visiting the ibis-covered campus. In fact, Frenk came to the Gables campus as part his medical school training in the mid-1970s. “I have fond memories of that encounter,” Frenk told The Miami Hurricane.
Frenk will replace Donna E. Shalala, who steps down at the end of the academic year. His term begins Sept. 1, 2015. “I have a great desire to take the university to the next level,” Frenk said. “This is the Miami moment. The university is poised to achieve great heights.” Following a campus-wide celebration that included free food from food trucks, student leaders from more than 15 organizations had the opportunity to talk shop with Frenk. “He was very open to hearing student concerns and was willing to work with us directly to improve our campus community,” said Brianna Hathaway, Student Government president-elect. Current SG President Alessandria San Roman echoed Hathaway’s sentiments. “Dr. Frenk was extremely personable and genuinely excited to join the ranks of the
renown University of Miami presidents,” San Roman said. “During the student leader discussion, I was excited to see that Dr. Frenk wants to further immerse our university into the greater Miami community.” Daniela Lorenzo, president-elect of the Federation of Cuban Students, also attended the meeting. She was equally excited about Frenk’s wife, Felicia Knaul, who is applying to join UM’s faculty in fall 2015. Knaul is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. “She was so witty and insightful and so personable that I know she’ll be a great faculty member and will enhance the U greatly,” Lorenzo said.
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M.D. from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1978 in Mexico City Master in Public Health in 1981, a Master of Arts in sociology in 1982, and a joint PhD from the departments of Medical Care Organization and Sociology, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Author of more than 140 articles in academic journals, and many books and book chapters Dean of faculty at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health since 2009
ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES Executive director for Evidence and Information for Policy at the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2000 Minister of Health for Mexico from 2000-06 Founding chair of the board of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington Former president of the Carso Health Institute in Mexico City Senior Fellow in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health program Member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico