Explore popular quotes and sayings by a physician Julio Frenk.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Julio José Frenk Mora is president of the University of Miami and has served in this role since 2015. He is the University of Miami's first Hispanic and native Spanish-speaking president. At the University of Miami, he is also a professor of public health sciences at the university's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, professor of health sector management at the university's School of Business, and professor of sociology at its College of Arts of Sciences.
Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.
Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere.
If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.
Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.