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FELICIA MARIE KNAUL
January 16, 2013
Current address: 29 Peakham Road, Sudbury, MA 01776.
Telephone: (617) 999-9154; (52155) 54182217.
E-mail:
fknaul@gmail.com; felicia_knaul@harvard.edu
Residency/visa status: H1B (for USA).
Date of Birth: 24/04/1966.
Place of Birth / Citizenship: Toronto, Canada / Canadian.
Permanent Residence: Av. Palmira 2500, Privada Bel Senda, casa 7, Col.
Palmira. Cuernavaca, Mor. C.P. 62490, Mexico.
BioSketch:
Felicia Knaul, MA, PhD (Economics, Harvard University), is Associate Professor at Harvard
Medical School and Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative where she serves as the Co-­director
of the Secretariat for the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and
Control in Developing Countries, an initiative she helped found in 2009 and for which she is lead
author and Editor of Closing the Cancer Divide available as a report (English, Spanish and
Russian) and a book distributed by Harvard University Press in 2012. She is also Senior
Economist at the Mexican Health Foundation where she has led a research group focused on
health and the economy since 2000.
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, Dr. Knaul founded Cáncer de Mama:
Tómatelo a Pecho a Mexican civil society organization that promotes research, advocacy,
awareness, and early detection initiatives for breast cancer in Latin America. She has published
articles on the topic of breast cancer in low and middle income countries in academic journals,
lectures extensively on the topic both from the point of view of a patient-­‐advocate and a health
systems researcher, and has been featured in magazines including Science. Her book recounting
her personal experience with breast cancer and as founder of a civil society organization in
Mexico, was released as Tómatelo a Pecho in 2009 (2nd edition, 2011), and expanded and
published in English in 2012 through Harvard University Press titled Beauty without the Breast.
Dr. Knaul has more than 130 academic and policy publications including journal articles
in English and Spanish, book chapters and books. In 2012, she led the publication in The Lancet
of a major review of the Mexican health system reform, following on chairing a Lancet working
group and resulted in a series of publications 2006. She also led the production of reports for
the Mexican government and participated in the World Health Report 2000. Her research is
focused on cancer in developing countries, health system reform, health financing and poverty,
women and health and children in especially difficult circumstances.
She holds a visiting academic appointment at the National Institute of Public Health of
Mexico and is a board member of numerous organizations including: the Union for International
Cancer Control; the International Advisory Board on Cancer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center; the Electronic Living Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Cancer Survivorship Research at
Princess Margaret Hospital; the Harvard-­‐Mexico Foundation; the Jalisco Cancer Institute; and
the Sheikh M. Hussein Al-­‐Amoudi Center of Excellence in Breast Cancer in Saudi Arabia. She has
held senior government posts at the Ministries of Education and Social Development of Mexico
and at the Department of Planning of Colombia, and worked for multilateral agencies including
WHO, the World Bank, the Inter-­‐American Development Bank, and UNICEF.
Dr. Knaul is a citizen of Canada and the United Kingdom, and a permanent resident of
Mexico, dividing her time between Boston and Cuernavaca. She and her husband, Dr. Julio
Frenk, have two children, Hannah and Mariana Havivah.
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EDUCATION:
Harvard University (1989 to 1995)
M.A. Economics. March, 1992.
Ph.D. Economics. June, 1995.
Fields of concentration: Economic Development and Labor Economics.
Dissertation: "Young Workers, Street Life and Gender: The Effect of
Education and Work Experience on Earnings in Colombia". Considers the
historical evolution of child and youth labor force participation, the condition
of street children and domestic workers, methodologies for enumerating
street children, the effect of early work experience on earnings and
education, and gender differentials in earnings.
Committee: Dr. Amartya Sen (Harvard University), Dr. Peter Timmer
(Harvard University) and Dr. Albert Berry (University of Toronto).
Funding Sources: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies,
Tinker Foundation (Harvard Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies),
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadian
International Development Agency, Departamento Nacional de Planeación
de Colombia, Inter-American Foundation, UNICEF.
University of Toronto, 1988
Honors B. A., Graduation with High Distinction.
Specialist in Economics, Major in International Development Studies
University of Toronto Schools, 1984
Honors Graduation Diploma; Ontario Scholar.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Harvard University (Summer 2009-present)
Director, Harvard Global Equity Initiative.
Co-director of the Secretariat, Global Task Force on Expanded Access to
Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries.
Associate Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine,
Harvard Medical School and Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham
and Women’s Hospital.
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Fundación Mexicana para la Salud/Mexican Health Foundation [January 2007 –
present (as of August 2009 on-leave)]
Senior Economist; Coordinator of the Latin America and Caribbean Health
Observatory; Director of the Health and Competitiveness initiative; Director of
the project and research group on Financial Protection in Health and the
Economics of Health; Founding Director of the program “Cáncer de mama:
Tómatelo a Pecho (Breast cancer: Take it to heart)”.
Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud/ Carlos Slim Institute of Health (July 2007-
December 2009)
Senior Advisor: health economics and finance, financial protection
initiative, institutional development.
Secretaría de Educación Pública, Mexico (May 2003 – December 2006)
Advisor (April-December 2006); General Coordinator for the
Administrative Modernization of Education (May 2003-March 2006).
Coordination of national policy studies on topics including technology for
education; economic analysis and evaluation; and generation of empirical
evidence and indicators for policy making. National Coordinator of
“Sigamos aprendiendo…en el hospital”, an educational program for sick
and hospitalized children. National Coordinator of the OECD Thematic
Study on Higher Education in Mexico, and coordinator of the evaluation of
basic education undertaken with Harvard School of Education.
Secretaría de Desarrollo Social, Mexico (January 2002 – March 2003)
General Coordinator of Analysis. Coordinated various technical projects for
the Secretary such as the inter-institutional project that generated the
Programa Nacional de Acción en favor de la Infancia 2002-2010 in
response to the Special Session of the United Nations of 2002; the Technical
Committee of the Social and Human Development Cabinet of the President
of the Republic; the design of the inter-institutional project Red de
Alimentación y Nutrición; amongst others.
Fundación Mexicana para la Salud/Mexican Health Foundation
(2002-2006 honorary post/on-leave)
Senior Economist (Economista Principal).
(August 2000 – January 2002):
Director, Center for Social and Economic Analysis in Health (CASEsalud).
Research: Design and evaluation of social policy, research on the costs and
implications for fairness of finance and labor markets of extending health
insurance coverage; gender, labor force participation, the feminization of
medical care and the provision of care-giving in the family; fiscal policy and
health care; implications of family violence on educational attainment and
human capital; and street children and child labor.
(August 2000 – January 2001): Economist, researcher.
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World Health Organization (April 1999 – November 2000)
Economist: coordinated the “International study on health systems and
ageing”, a multi-country research and data collection initiative to analyse
expenditure, financing, and other health care outcomes in relation to health
system incentives and structure; involving both developed and developing
countries; funded by the National Institute on Aging, and undertaken with
Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research.
Université de Lausanne, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and Institut
d’Economie et Management de la Santé (November 1999 – December 2000)
Invited Professor: participated in courses and seminars on health economics,
and supervised doctoral dissertations in the area of health economics.
Consultant: (March 1999 – January 2002)
Inter-American Development Bank: wrote a series of econometric papers
on child abuse and intergenerational transfer of poverty in Colombia and
Mexico (with Marya Buvinic and Andrew Morrisson), December 1999 to
January 2002.
The World Bank, Operations Evaluation Department, Consultant on
health and education sectors for the Mexico Country Assistance
Evaluation; October-January 1999 (with Dan Morrow).
Inter-American Development Bank: consulting on a paper written to
evaluate the IDB-financed Programa de Mejoramiento de los Servicios
de Salud (PMSS-Guatemala) (with Bill Savedoff), July 1999 to
December 1999.
International Labour Office Transition Team (November 1998 – March 1999)
Responsible for collaborative project with Harvard University on designing
research policy; working in the areas of gender, child labor, economics, and
data and statistics.
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, Mexico
(Nov 1998 to Dec 1999): Professor-Researcher, Division of Economics.
(Sept 1997 to Nov 1998): Director of Development; Professor-
Researcher, Division of Economics; Director: Research Program in
Health Economics; Research projects/grants: “Salud y Productividad”,
IDB; “Educación, participación laboral y calidad de vida de los niños, los
jóvenes y las mujeres mexicanas”, CONACyT; “Salud y Crecimiento”,
PAHO with David Mayer.
(Sept 1996 to Aug 1997): Professor-Researcher, Division of Economics;
Coordinator: Research Project in Health Economics.
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (June 1995 to July 1996)
Advisor to the Director of the Planning Unit: working primarily on health
reform and day care insurance.
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Mexican Health Foundation (June 1995 – February 1996)
Consultant: directed the research project “El prepago por servicios de salud
privados en México”.
Universidad de Los Andes/Ministry of Labor and Social Security of Colombia
(May 1995 – October 1995)
Consultant: co-author of a volume on working children and youth.
The World Bank (June 1995 – September 1995 and April 1996 – December 1996)
Consultant: Colombia Child/Youth Development Project; wrote an overview
paper on at-risk youth and an empirical study investigating the relationships
between social and human capital in Colombia.
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (1991-1992, 1994-1995)
Bell Fellow: conducted research on street children and child labor related to
doctoral dissertation.
Mexican Health Foundation (December 1993 – August 1994)
Associate Researcher: Collaborator on the report “Economía y Salud:
propuesta para el avance del sistema de salud en México”.
IPSCAN-DCI International Working Group on Child Labour (summer 1994)
Contract: wrote a document on street children in Colombia for inclusion in
global study.
International Labor Office/Universidad de Los Andes (summer 1994)
Consultant: co-author of a report titled “Un análisis cuantitativo del trabajo
infantil y juvenil en Colombia”.
Departamento Nacional de Planeación (Colombia)
(April 1993 to July 1994): Advisor to the Director of the Department,
Specialist on Social Sector Issues: participated in various projects with
the Ministry of Health including the Burden of Disease-DALY
calculations and preparation of the Social Security and Health Reform;
advisor to the Misión de Apoyo a la Descentralización y la Focalización
de los Servicios Sociales; coordinated seminars including “Managing an
Oil Boom: Lessons for Colombia from the Indonesian experience” in
conjunction with the World Bank and the Harvard Institute for
International Development; co-edited several volumes of the journal
Planeación y Desarrollo and assisted in the preparation of various
documents for the Consejo Nacional para la Política Económica y Social.
(June 1992 to April 1993): Consultant to the Director of the Social
Planning Unit: assisted in the design of the Social Security and Health
Reform; organized seminars and conducted a survey and a study of
children in especially difficult circumstances.
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UNICEF, Urban Division, New York (November 1991 to September 1992)
Consultant: Co-author of a report titled “Three Times Empowered, Three
Times Exploited: Young, Urban Women in Especially Difficult
Circumstances”. Included research in Thailand and the Philippines.
Harvard University, Department of Economics (September 1991 to January 1992)
Teaching Assistant: “Social Problems of the US Economy” taught by Dr.
Larry Katz.
Canadian International Development Agency, Management for Change Division
(January 1991 to August 1991)
Consultant: Provided research assistance to the Director of the Division and
conducted a study of an NGO in India.
Currier House, Harvard University (September 1990 to June 1992)
Resident Tutor for Economics: Resource person for students interested in
economics, international development, and public service.
CHILDHOPE Foundation (March 1990 to June 1992)
Consultant: Wrote various publications and represented the organization at
conferences.
The World Bank (June 1990 to September 1990)
Intern at the Division of Population, Health and Human Resources.
World Institute for Development Economics Research (December 1989 to June
1990)
Research Assistant to Prof. Lance Taylor (Dept. of Economics, M.I.T.)
Christian Children's Fund of Canada (September 1988 to June 1989)
Program Officer: Responsible for the Jamaican Recovery Fund. Included
three missions to Jamaica following Hurricane Gilbert to design and
implement community-based projects.
Development Officer: Worked on a variety of fundraising projects.
CHILDHOPE Foundation Canada (September 1987 to August 1989)
National Director reporting to the International CHILDHOPE Foundation.
University of Toronto (September 1987 to May 1989)
Teaching Assistant: Introductory Economics (1988-1989); International
Trade and Finance (1987-1988 & 1988-1989); Quantitative Methods in
Economics II (Summer 1988).
The United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations (Summer 1987).
Research Assistant to the Assistant Director of the Policy Analysis and
Research Division.
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DISTINCTIONS, AWARDS AND INSTITUTIONAL AND ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS:
• Board Member, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), 2010-2012,
re-elected 2012-2014
• Member, The Lancet Oncology Commission “Planning future affordable
cancer control in Latin America and the Caribbean”, 2013
• Member, Harvard School of Public Health-The Lancet Commission on
Women and Health, as of July 2012
• Section Editor, Global Health, The Oncologist, as of June 2012
• Member, Task Force on Non-communicable Diseases and Women’s Health,
as of November 2011
• Member, Non-communicable Diseases Working Group convened by the
Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business
Enterprises at John Hopkins University and the Global Health Council, as of
November 2011
• Member, Scientific Board, Akbaraly Foundation, Madagascar as of November
2011
• Member, Lancet Non-communicable Diseases Action Group, Lancet Series 4.
• Civil Society Representative (on behalf of the Harvard Global Equity
Initiative), United Nations High-level Meeting on the Prevention and Control
of Non-communicable Diseases, United Nations, New York, September 19-
20, 2011
• Member, Editorial Board, International Scholarly Research Network Public
Health, as of July 2011
• Invited guest, American Cancer Society’s “We Can, We Should, We Will
Conquer Cancer” advocacy event, New York, June 18-20, 2011
• Honorary Co-chair, 38th Annual Global Health Council Conference,
Washington D.C., June 13-17, 2011.
• Member, Editorial Board, Global Handbook of Health Economics, as of April
2011
• Member, Women and Health Initiative Faculty Steering Committee, Harvard
School of Public Health, as of March 2011
• Member, Working Group on Health Priority-Setting Institutions, Center for
Global Development, as of March 2011
• Steering Committee, Non-communicable Diseases Bottom Billion
Conference, as of January 2011
• Member, World Cancer Leaders’ Summit Steering Committee, Union for
International Cancer Control, as of August 2010
• Member, Mexican Coalition for Breast Health, as of September 2010
• Founder and President, Tómatelo a Pecho A.C., since July 2010
• Member, Advisory Board, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi Center of
Excellence in Breast Cancer, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Honoree, The One Hundred, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center,
2010
• Member, Union for International Cancer Control, CEO Advisory Task Force,
April 2010 to July 2010
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• Board Member, Jalisco Cancer Institute, April 2010 to present
• Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Living Laboratory for Interdisciplinary
Cancer Survivorship Research, Princess Margaret Hospital, April 2010 to
present
• Member, International Council of Advisors, Asian University for Women,
2010 to present
• Honorary Research Professor of Medical Sciences, Level F, Health Systems
Research Centre of the National Institute for Public Health of Mexico, March
2010 to december 2012
• Member, International Advisory Committee on Cancer, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, Fall 2009 to present
• Member, Advisory Board, Earth Institute/Latin America in Solidarity Action
Early Childhood Development program, Columbia University, 2009 to present
• Member, World Health Organization Scientific Resource Group (SRG) on
Equity Analysis and Research, 2009 to present
• Member of the board, Friends of the ICDDR-Bangladesh, 2009 to present
• Member, National System of Researchers of Mexico, Since July 1, 1998;
Level 2 as of 2008
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Breast Cancer of Salud Pública de México,
journal of the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, 2009
• Member, Strategic Consultative Committee for the Office for Mexico and
Central America, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at
Harvard University, as of December 2007
• Associate of the Centre for International Health, Department of Public Health
Sciences, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, as of November
2007
• Member of the Editorial Board, Health Policy and Planning, as of October
2007
• Member, Advisory Council of UNICEF México. Since 2003
• Member, Board/Council, Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO).
Since August 2005
• Editorial Advisor, International Social Security Review. Since 2005
• Member, Board/Council, Fundación Harvard en México A.C. Since June 2005
• Member, Advisory Board of the Global Health Working Group of the Clinton
Global Initiative, 2008
• Member, Advisory Committee, Pfizer México, 2008
• Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution Global Economy and
Development Program. Global Health Financing Initiative/Health Financing
Task Force, 2007-2008
• First Place, Global Development Awards: Outstanding Research on
Development Competition 2005 of the Global Development Network in the
category institutional Development and Change in the Health Sector, 2006
• Senior Advisor, Health Financing Task Force, Global Health Financing
Initiative, the Brookings Institution, 2006-2007
• Medical Sciences Researcher, Health Systems Research Centre of the
National Institute for Public Health of Mexico, 2006-2008
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• Member of the Scientific Committee, International Health Economics
Association, 2006-2007
• Executive Secretary of the Sub-commission of the National Education
Council for Life and Work, in charge of the program “Sigamos aprendiendo…
en el hospital”. October 2005 to December 2006
• Chair, The Lancet Health System Reform in Mexico Series Steering
Committee, 2006
• Commissioner, Mexican Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, 2002-
2006
• Advisor, Technical Council of the National Consortium on Women and
Health, 2001-2006
• Member, Academic Council, Instituto de Fomento e Investigación Educativa,
A.C. 2004-2006
• Advisor, “Centros de Promoción para la Infancia en Situación de la Calle
Matlapa”, 2003-2006
• Member, Technical Advisory Group, National Health Accounts, Min. of
Health of Mexico, 2002
• Member, Working Group 1, International Commission on Macroeconomics
and Health,1999-2001
• Macarthur/Bell Foundation Fellowship, Harvard Center For Population and
Development Studies, 1991-1992 and 1994-1995
• Doctoral Fellowship, Social Science And Research Council of Canada, 1992-
1995
• Doctoral Research Fellowship, InterAmerican Foundation (IAF), 1992-1994
• Tinker Foundation Research Grant, Tinker Foundation/Harvard University,
1992
• Bladen Prize In Economics, University of Toronto, 1988
• Scarborough College In-Course Scholarship (Social Science), University of
Toronto, 1987 and 1988
• Rotary Club of Scarborough International Service Scholarship, Scarborough
College Students Council, University of Toronto, 1985
PUBLICATIONS – Journals, Book Chapters, and Books:
Atun R, Knaul FM, Akachi Y, Frenk J. Innovative financing for health: what is
truly innovative? Lancet 2012; 380(9858): 2044-49.
Knaul FM, Wong R, Arreola-Ornelas H. (Eds.) Household Spending and
Impoverishment. Volume 1 of Financing Health in Latin America Series.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Mexican Health Foundation,
International Development Research Centre, 2013. Distributed by Harvard
University Press.
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Knaul FM, Wong R, Arreola-Ornelas H, Pleic M. “Introduction.” Chapter
1 in Knaul FM, Wong R, Arreola-Ornelas H. Household Spending and
Impoverishment.
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Pleic M, Wong R. “Household health
spending, equity and poverty: A literature and methodology review.”
Chapter 2 in Knaul FM, Wong R, Arreola-Ornelas H. Household Spending
and Impoverishment.
Knaul FM, Wong R, Arreola-Ornelas H, Mendez O, Bitran R, Coelho
Campino AC, et al. “Household catastrophic health expenditures. A
comparative analysis of twelve Latin American and Caribbean countries.”
Chapter 3 in Knaul FM, Wong R, Arreola-Ornelas H. Household Spending
and Impoverishment.
Earlier version published in Salud Pública Mex 2011 July; 53 (supl
2):S85-S95.
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Wong R, Mendez O, Aguilar AM, Pleic M.
“Catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditure in Mexico.
Remittances as a financial protection mechanism. A propensity-score
matching analysis.” Chapter 9 in Knaul FM, Wong R, Arreola-Ornelas H.
Household Spending and Impoverishment.
Knaul FM. Beauty Without the Breast. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Global Equity
Initiative, 2012. Distributed by Harvard University Press.
Knaul FM, Gralow JR, Atun R, Bhadelia A. (Eds.) based on the work of the
Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing
Countries. Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard Global Equity Initiative, 2012. Distributed by Harvard University Press.
Knaul FM, Gralow JR, Atun R, Bhadelia A, Frenk J, Quick J, Shulman L,
Farmer P. “Closing the cancer divide: Overview and summary.” Chapter 1
in Knaul FM, Gralow JR, Atun R, Bhadelia A. Closing the Cancer Divide:
An Equity Imperative.
Knaul FM, Adami HO, Adebamowo C, Arreola-Ornelas H, Berger AJ,
Bhadelia A, et al. “The global cancer divide: An equity imperative.”
Chapter 2 in Knaul FM, Gralow JR, Atun R, Bhadelia A. Closing the
Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative.
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Atun R, Mendez O, Guerrero R, Alsan M,
Seinfeld J. “Investing in cancer care and control.” Chapter 3 in Knaul FM,
Gralow JR, Atun R, Bhadelia A. Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity
Imperative.
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Knaul FM, Alleyne G, Piot P, Atun R, Gralow JR, Neal C, Sepulveda J,
Frenk J. “Health system strengthening and cancer: A diagonal response to
the challenge of chronicity” Chapter 4 in Knaul FM, Gralow JR, Atun R,
Bhadelia A. Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative.
Knaul FM, Bhadelia A, Bashshur R, Berger AJ, Binagwaho A, Blackstock
E, et al. “Innovative delivery of cancer care and control in low-resource
scenarios.” Chapter 6 in Knaul FM, Gralow JR, Atun R, Bhadelia A.
Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative.
Atun R, Knaul FM. “Innovative financing: Local and global
opportunities.” Chapter 8 in Knaul FM, Gralow JR, Atun R, Bhadelia A.
Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative.
Keating N, Kouri E, Gralow JR, Cahill K, Zujewski JA, Porter P, Nigenda
G, Atun R, Knaul FM. “Evidence for decisión-making: Strengthening
health information systems and the research base.” Chapter 9 in Knaul
FM, Gralow JR, Atun R, Bhadelia A. Closing the Cancer Divide: An
Equity Imperative.
Knaul FM, Alleyne G, Atun R, Bustreo F, Gralow JR, Gospodarowics M,
Piot P, Pyle D, Frenk J. “Strengthening stewardship and leadership to
expand access to cancer care and control.” Chapter 10 in Knaul FM,
Gralow JR, Atun R, Bhadelia A. Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity
Imperative.
Knaul FM, González-Pier E, Gómez-Dantés O, García-Junco D, Arreola-Ornelas
H, Barraza-Llorens M, Sandoval R, Caballero F, Hernández M, Juan M,
Kershenobich D, Nigenda G, Ruelas E, Sepulveda J, Tapia R, Soberón G,
Chertorivski S, Frenk J. The quest for universal health coverage: Achieving social
protection for all in Mexico. Lancet 2012; 380(9849): 1259-1279.
Knaul FM, Bhadelia A, Gralow J, Arreola-Ornelas H, Langer A, Frenk J. Meeting
the Emerging Challenge of Breast and Cervical Cancer in Low and Middle Income
Countries. World Report on Women’s Health, International Federation of
Gynecology and Obstetrics. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
2012; 119(Suppl 1): S85-S88.
Knaul FM, Grover B. Closing the NCD Divide: A Matter of Equity and Social
Justice. Huffington Post Blog 2012; Sept 19, 2012.
Chavarri-Guerra Y, Villarreal-Garza C, Liedke PER, Knaul F, Mojar A,
Finkelstein D, Goss PE. Breast Cancer in Mexico: a growing challenge to health
and the health care system. Lancet Oncology 2012; 13(8): e335-e343.
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Bustreo F, Knaul FM, Bhadelia A, Beard J, Araujo de Carvalho I. Women’s health
beyond reproduction: Meeting the challenges. Bulletin of the World Health
Organization 2012; 90: 478-478A.
• Reprint in Entre Nous. The European Magazine for Sexual and
Reproductive Health 2012 (No.75).
Knaul FM, Saligram N. Including Non-Communicable Diseases in the Rio+20
Dialogue on Sustainable Futures. Huffington Post Blog, Jun 18, 2012.
Quick JD, Knaul FM. Closing the Global Cancer Divide: Together it is Possible.
Huffington Post Blog; Feb 4, 2012.
Knaul FM, Frenk J, and Shulman L for the Global Task Force on Expanded Access
to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries. Closing the Cancer Divide: A
Blueprint to Expand Access in Low and Middle Income Countries. Boston, MA:
Harvard Global Equity Initiative, November 2011. Available at:
http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/uploads/pdf/ccd_report_111027.pdf
Spanish Edition. Cerrando la Brecha del Cáncer: Reporte de la Comisión
Global para Ampliar el Acceso a la Atención y Control del en Países en
Desarrollo. Available at:
http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/uploads/pdf/cbc_reporte.pdf
Russian Edition. Преодоление неравенства в борье против рақа:
Программа по расширениґо доступа қ деҹениґо встранаҳ с низқим и
средним уровнем доҳодов. Available at:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1063570.files//RussianGTFCCC
Report.pdf
Knaul FM, Frenk J. Strengthening Health Systems to Address New Challenge
Diseases (NCDs). Harvard Public Health Review, Fall 2011.
Torres Mejía G, Knaul FM, Ortega-Olvera C, Magaña-Valladares L, Uscanga-
Sanchez SR, Lazcano-Ponce E. Detección temprana y manejo integral del cáncer
de mama. Manual dirigido para personal de medicina y enfermería del primer nivel
de atención. Cuernavaca, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, October,
2011.
Frenk J, Gómez Dantés O, and Knaul FM. Globalization and Infectious Diseases.
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America 2011 Sep; 25(3): 593-9.
Gómez-Dantes O, Knaul FM, Lazcano E. Sesma S. Arreola-Ornelas H. Guest
Editors. “Atlas de los sistemas de salud de América Latina”. Special Edition of
Salud Pública Mex2011 July; Vol. 53 (supl 2).
Knaul FM, Wong R, Arreola-Ornelas H, Méndez O, et al. Household catastrophic
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health expenditures: A comparative analysis of twelve Latin American and
Caribbean countries. Salud Publica Mex 2011 July; 53 (supl 2):S85-S95.
Gómez-Dantés O, Sesma S, Becerril VM, Knaul FM, Arreola H, Frenk J. Sistema
de salud de México. Salud Publica Mex 2011 July; 53 (supl 2):S220-S232.
Shulman LN, Willett W, Sievers A, Knaul FM. Breast Cancer in Developing
Countries: Opportunities for Improved Survival. Journal of Oncology.
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 595167, 6 pages. doi:10.1155/2010/595167.
Knaul FM, González Robledo LM, González Robledo MC, Magaña Valladares L.
Detección temprana del cáncer de mama. Una tarea de todos. Manual para personal
dedicado a la salud de la comunidad. Cuernavaca (México): Coedición del Instituto
Nacional de Salud Pública y Tómatelo a Pecho A.C., October 2010.
Anderson B, Ballieu M, Bradley C, Elzawawy A, Cazap E, Eniu A, Harford J, Kerr
D, Knaul F, Magrath I, Reeler A, Rowett L, Saba J, Samiei M, Sullivan L. Access
to Cancer Treatment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries – An Essential Part of
Global Cancer Control. Working Paper. CanTreat International. August 2010.
Farmer P, Frenk, J, Knaul FM, Shulman L, Alleyne G, Armstrong L, Atun R,
Blayney D, Chen L, Feachem R, Gospodarowicz M, Gralow J, Gupta S, Langer A,
Lob-Levyt J, Neal C, Mbewu A, Mired D, Piot P, Reddy KS, Sachs JD, Sarhan M,
Seffrin JR. “Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle
income: a call to action.” The Lancet 2010; 376(9747): 1186-1193.
Knaul FM, Frenk, J. “La Epidemia Silenciosa de Cáncer de Mama en América
Latina.” Newsweek en Español. February 26, 2010.
López-Carrillo L, Torres-Sánchez L. Knaul F. Age at first mammogram and
timeliness of breast cancer diagnosis. Working paper. 2010.
Knaul, Felicia Marie. Tómatelo a Pecho. México D. F.: Editorial Aguilar Fontanar,
Grupo Santillana, 2009.
• 2 nd Edition: Knaul FM. Tómatelo a Pecho. Edición especial en Honor a Sor
María Suárez Vázquez. México D. F.: Editorial Aguilar Fontanar, Grupo
Santillana, 2011.
Frenk J, Gómez-Dantés O, Knaul FM. “The democratization of health in Mexico:
financial innovations for universal coverage.” Bulletin of the World Health
Organization, 2009; 87(7): 485-564.
Knaul FM, L López, E Lazcano, H Gomez Dantés, I Romieu, G Torres. Guest
Editors. “Cáncer de Máma: reto para la sociedad y para los sistemas de salud.”
Special Edition of Salud Pública de México 2009 March; 51(suppl 2):S131-S375.
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Knaul FM, López Carrillo L, Lazcano Ponce E, Gómez Dantés H, Romieu I,
Torres G. “Cáncer de mama: un reto para la sociedad y los sistemas de salud.”
Salud Pública de México 2009; Vol. 51 (suppl 2):S135-137.
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Velázquez E, Dorantes J, Méndez O, Ávila-Burgos
L. El costo de la atención médica del cáncer mamario: el caso del Instituto
Mexicano del Seguro Social. Salud Pública de México 2009; Vol. 51 suppl 2:S286-
S295.
Knaul F, Bustreo F, Ha E, Langer A. Breast cancer: Why link early detection to
reproductive health interventions in developing countries? Salud Pública de
México 2009; Vol. 51 suppl 2:S220-S227.
Knaul F. Testimony: “Una mujer ante el cáncer de mama en México”. Salud
Pública de México 2009; Vol. 51, suppl 2:S364-S371.
Knaul FM, G Nigenda, R Lozano, H Arreola-Ornelas, A Langer and J Frenk.
“Breast Cancer in Mexico: a pressing priority.” Reproductive Health Matters 2008;
16(32): 113-123.
• Reprinted in Spanish as Knaul FM, Nigenda G, Lozano R, Arreola-Ornelas
H, Langer A, Frenk J. Cáncer de mama en México: una prioridad
apremiante. Salud Pública de México 2009; 51 (Suppl 2): S335-S344.
Knaul FM. “I Am a Woman Who Lives with Breast Cancer”. Reproductive Health
Matters. Vol. 16 (32), Nov 2008. 133-138.
Knaul FM, Arreola H, Méndez O, Miranda M. (2009). “Preventing
impoverishment, promoting equity and protecting households from financial crisis:
Universal Insurance through Institutional Reform in Mexico”. In “Addressing
Challenges of Health Systems in the Developing World”. Peter Smith and Diana
Pinto, Editors. Global Development Network and Edward Elgar.
Pleic M, Knaul FM, Berry A (2009). “Child Labour in Mexico”. In Hugh Hindman
Ed. Child Labour World Atlas: A Reference Encyclopedia. MESharpe Inc.
Knaul FM, Rosado J, Ortega S, Pérez Fernández CJ, Suárez Vázquez M. (2009).
“Programas educativos para niños y jóvenes que viven con enfermedad: el caso de
México”. In Anuario educativo mexicano: visión retrospectiva. México:
Porrúa/Universidad Pedagógica Nacional.
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Escandón P (2007). “La competitividad, la salud y
el sector salud: Una nueva vertiente del paradigma de economía y salud.” Gaceta
Médica de México.
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Frenk J, Knaul FM, González-Pier E, Barraza-Lloréns M (2007). “Poverty, health
and social protection”. In Extending Social Protecion in Health. (Papers from the
International Conference on Social Insurance in Developing Countries, Berlin, 05-
07 Dec, 2005). GTZ, ILO, WHO.
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Méndez-Carniado O, Torres AC. (2007).
“Impoverishing and catastrophic household health spending among families with
older adults in Mexico: A health reform priority.” Chapter 18. The Health of Aging
Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population. Angel, JL, Whitfield KE. (Eds.). New
York: Springer Publishing.
Moe, K, Levison, D, Knaul FM (2008). “Marking Time: An Analysis of Youth
Hours of Work and Study in Urban Mexico.” Review of Development Economics.
12(4), 751–763.
Knaul FM, Horton R (Eds.) Suplemento: La reforma del sistema de salud
mexicano. México, D. F.: Salud Pública de México 2007, Vol. 49 (suppl 1).
Knaul FM, Frenk J, Horton R. “Health system reform in Mexico”. In Knaul FM,
Horton R, (Eds.) Suplemento: La reforma del sistema de salud mexicano. Mexico,
D.F.: Salud Pública de México 2007, Vol. 49 (suppl 1).
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Méndez-Carniado O, et al. “Evidence is good for
your health system: policy reform to remedy catastrophic and impoverishing health
spending in Mexico.” The Lancet 2006; 368(9549): 1828-1841.
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Méndez-Carniado O, Bryson-Cahn C, Barofsky J,
Maguire R, Miranda M, Sesma S. “Las evidencias benefician al sistema de salud:
reforma para remediar el gasto catastrófico y empobrecedor en salud en México”.
In Knaul FM, Horton R, (Eds.) Suplemento: La reforma del sistema de salud
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Frenk J, González-Pier E, Gómez-Dántes O, Lezana MA, Knaul FM. (2006)
“Comprehensive reform to improve health system performance in Mexico.” The
Lancet; 368(9546):1524-1534.
Frenk J, González-Pier E, Gómez-Dantés O, Lezana MA, Knaul FM. “Reforma
integral para mejorar el desempeño del sistema de salud en México”. In Knaul FM,
Horton R, (Eds.) Suplemento: La reforma del sistema de salud mexicano. México,
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Knaul FM, Pérez Fernández CJ, Suárez Vázquez M, Ortega Alanis SX (Coord.)
(2006). Inclusión educativa para niños, niñas y jóvenes hospitalizados: Un análisis
basado en el programa nacional de México. México, D. F.: Fondo de Cultura
Económica e Intersistemas.
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Knaul FM, Santos-Burgoa Zarnecki C. (2006). “Capítulo 2: Más allá de la
sobrevivencia: niñas, niños y jóvenes que viven con enfernedad, grupo prioritario
para la inclusión educativa.” In Knaul FM, et al. (Coords.). Inclusión educativa
para niños, niñas y jóvenes hospitalizados: Un análisis basado en el programa
nacional de México, pp. 29-56. México, D. F.: Intersistemas.
Knaul FM. (2006). “Capítulo 5: Modelos para la organización institucional de los
programas educativos para niños, niñas y jóvenes hospitalizados y que viven con
enfermedad.” In Knaul FM, et al., (Coords.). Inclusión educativa para niños, niñas
y jóvenes hospitalizados: Un análisis basado en el programa nacional de México,
pp. 105-123. México, D. F.: Intersistemas.
Márquez-Mees V, Rosado J, Limón N, Pleic M, Rattray K, Knaul FM. (2006).
“Capítulo 6: Programas educativos para niños, niñas y jóvenes que viven con
enfermedad: experiencias internacionales.” In Knaul FM, et al. (Coords.). Inclusión
educativa para niños, niñas y jóvenes hospitalizados: Un análisis basado en el
programa nacional de México, pp. 125-176. México, D. F.: Intersistemas.
Ortega Alanis SX, Rosado J, Knaul FM. (2006). “Capítulo 8: Un programa
nacional para cumplir los derechos educativos de niños, niñas, jóvenes y familias
desde el hospital: el caso de Sigamos aprendiendo...en el hospital en México.” In
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hospitalizados: Un análisis basado en el programa nacional de México, pp. 209-
244. México, D. F.: Intersistemas.
Arrieta W, Knaul FM, Diego G, Limón N, Herrera C. (2006). “Capítulo 10: El
modelo educativo de Sigamos aprendiendo...en el hospital para aulas
hospitalarias.” In Knaul FM, et al. (Coords.). Inclusión educativa para niños, niñas
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Knaul FM. (2006). “Conclusiones y recomendaciones.” In Knaul FM, et al.
(Coords.). Inclusión educativa para niños, niñas y jóvenes hospitalizados: Un
análisis basado en el programa nacional de México, pp. 331-340. México, D. F.:
Intersistemas.
Tamez Guerra RS, Knaul FM, Reimers F. (2006). “Introducción.” In Reimers F.
(Coord.). Aprender Más y Mejor. Políticas, programas y oportunidades de
aprendizaje en educación básica en México, pp. 13-21. Colección Educación y
Pedagogía. México, D. F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Yoshikawa H, McCartney K, Myers R, Bub KL, Lugo-Gil J, Ramos Olazagasti
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aprendizaje en educación básica en México, pp. 13-21. Colección Educación y
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Nugent R, Knaul F. (2006). “Fiscal Policies for Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention.” In Jamison DT, Breman JG and Measham AR (Eds.). Disease Control
Priorities in Developing Countries, (2 nd Edition), 211-224. New York: Oxford
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Knaul FM, Arreola H, Méndez O, Miranda M. (2005). “Preventing
Impoverishment, Promoting Equity And Protecting Households From Financial
Crisis: Universal Health Insurance Through Institutional Reform In Mexico.”
Working Paper. Fundación Mexicana para la Salud. First Place, Global
Development Awards: Outstanding Research on Development Competition 2005
of the Global Development Network in the category Institutional Development and
Change in the Health Sector.
Tamez Guerra RS, Knaul FM, León AS, Schmelkes S, Freyre R, Arrieta W.
(2005). “Hacia una Educación para la Competitividad: Elementos de Políticas
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Knaul F, Arreola H, Méndez O. (2005). “Protección Financiera en Salud: México,
1992 a 2004”. Salud Pública de México. Vol 47 (6), Nov-Dec: pp 430-439.
Knaul F, Arreola H. (2005). The Role of Evidence on Financial Protection in the
Mexican Health Reform of 2003. Paper produced for the International
Development Research Center of Canada, Research Matters initiative in the
Governance, Equity and Health program.
Knaul F, Frenk J. (2005). “Health Insurance in Mexico: Achieving Universal
Coverage Through Structural Reform.” Health Affairs;2(4-6):1467-76.
Knaul F, Arreola H, Méndez O. (2005). Applying analysis of financial protection
in health in the Mexican Health Reform of 2003: An example of evidence for
policy making. EUROLAC, Working Paper. Washington D.C., 2005.
Knaul F, Arreola H, Méndez O, Martínez A. (2005). La justicia financiera y los
gastos catastróficos en salud: el impacto esperado de la extensión del Seguro
Popular de Salud en México. Salud Pública de México; 47 (suppl 1): pp. 53-64.
Knaul F, Escandón P. (2005). “Educación, Salud y Competitividad: Hacia un
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Knaul F, Ramírez MA. (2005). Family Violence and Child Abuse in Latin America
and the Caribbean: The cases of Colombia and Mexico. IADB, Sustainable
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Gap in Health Research: the Use of Evidence in the Mexican Health Reform.” In S.
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Frenk J, Knaul F, Gómez-Dantés O, et al. (2004). Financiamiento Justo y
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México. Secretaría de Salud, México.
Frenk J, Gómez Dantés O, Knaul F. (2004). “Salud: Un diagnóstico.” Nexos, 317,
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Knaul F, Arreola H, Nigenda G. (2003). Disposición a pagar por un seguro
público de salud. Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, (Mimeo).
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Propuesta”. Economía y Salud, No. 19, Fundación Mexicana para la Salud.
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Investigación a las Políticas y de las Políticas a la Acción. Centro de Análisis
Social y Económico, Fundación Mexicana para la Salud.
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Probabilidad de Violencia Intergeneracional, la Progresión Escolar y el Mercado
Laboral en México.” En Knaul FM y Nigenda G (Eds.) Caleidoscopio de la Salud.
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Políticas y de las Políticas a la Acción, pp. 185- 194. Centro de Análisis Social y
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Knaul FM, Arreola H, Borja C, Méndez O, Torres AC. (2003). “El Sistema de
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CEDAW”. Coloquio nacional para el análisis de la aplicación del protocolo
facultativo de la Convención sobre la Eliminación de Todas las Formas de
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transversal a favor de las niñas, los niños y los adolescentes”. Cuaderno de
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Sesma Vázquez S, Campuzano Rincón JC, Carreón Rodríguez VG, Knaul FM,
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demanda de tabaco en México: 1992-1998”. Salud Pública de México; 44(Suppl
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Rica”. Background material for the meeting: Lessons for Long-Term Care Policy.
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capital humano: diferencias de género en México”. In Katz EG, Correia MC (Eds.)
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Cutler D, Knaul FM, Lozano R, Méndez O, Zurita B. (2002). “Financial Crisis,
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Cutler D, Knaul FM, Lozano R, Méndez O, Zurita B. (2000). “Ageing, Financial
and Economic Crisis, and Health Outcomes: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s.”
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Frenk J, Knaul F. (2002). “Health and the Economy: Empowerment Through
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Soberón G, Valdés-Olmedo C, Martínez-Narváez G, Knaul F, et al. (2001).
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Murray CJL, Knaul F, Musgrove P, Xu K, Kawabata K. (2001). “Fairness in
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Frenk J, Knaul F, Vázquez-Segovia LA, Nigenda G. (2001). “Determinants of
Medical Employment in Urban Mexico: Ascription, Achievement and Context”.
Current Sociology, May; 49(3): 79-96.
Levison D, Moe K, Knaul F. (2001). “Youth Education and Work in Mexico”.
World Development, Jan; 29(1):167-188.
Knaul F, Méndez O, Murray CJL, Arreola H, Ortíz JP, Torres AC, Frenk J. (2001).
The Impact of Extending Universal Pre-Paid Coverage on the Fairness of
Financial Finance and Catastrophic Health Expenditures in Mexico. Mimeo.
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Xu K, Lydon P, Ortiz de Iturbide J, Musgrove P, Knaul F, Kawabata K, Florez CE,
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Barker G, Knaul F, Cassaniga N, Schrader A. (2000). “Urban Girls: Empowerment
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Frenk J, González MA, Knaul F, Lozano R. (1999). “La Seguridad Social en Salud:
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Knaul F, Parker S. (1998). “Patterns over Time and determinants of Early Labor
Force Participation and School Drop Out: Evidence form Longitudinal and
Retrospective Data on Mexican Children and Youth.” Presented at the 1998
meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago.
Frenk J, Londoño JL, Knaul F. (1998). “The Transformation of Health Systems in
Latin America” En: 21 st Century Health Care in Latin America. Institute for
Alternatives Futures- FUNSALUD. Mexico.
Jamison D, Frenk J, Knaul F. (1998). “International Collective Action in Health:
Objectives, Functions and Rationale”. The Lancet, February; 351(9101).
Knaul F. (1998). Learning and Earning: The impact of early entry into the labour
force on earnings in Colombia. Working Paper, CIDE.
Knaul F. (1997). Payoffs and Tradeoffs to Early Labor force Participation in
Colombia. Working Paper # 96. CIDE. Mexico.
Knaul F. (1997). Missing Street Girls: The Importance of Overtime Measures for
Counting the Homeless in Bogota. Working Paper, CIDE.
Parker S, Knaul F. (1997). Employment and Child-care Strategies among Women
with Young Children: The Mexican Case. Working Paper, CIDE No.75.
Knaul F, Parker S. (1997). “El prepago por servicios médicos privados en México”.
En Observatorio de la Salud: Necesidades, Servicios, Políticas. FUNSALUD.
Mexico.
Frenk J, et al. (1997). “The Future of World Health, the New World Order and
International Health”. British Medical Journal. Vol. 314 (1404). (co-author).
Frenk J, Knaul F. (1996). “Los derechos humanos como base doctrinaria para las
políticas de salud”. In Frenk J, Liguori AL, Sepúlveda J (Eds.) Salud y derechos
humanos. Perspectivas en salud pública 22. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública.
Mexico.
Parker S, Knaul F. (1996). “Cuidado infantil y empleo femenino en México:
evidencia descriptiva y consideraciones sobre las políticas”. Estudios
Demográficos y Urbanos. Vol. 11 (3), December.
Flórez CE, Knaul F, Méndez R. (1995). Niños y jóvenes: ¿Cuántos y dónde
trabajan?. Bogotá Tercer Mundo Editores, Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad
Social y CEDE/Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
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Knaul F. (1995). Counting Bogota's Street Children: Defined Away, Missing or
Out of Sight. Working paper. Harvard Center for Population and Development
Studies.
Frenk J, Lozano R, González Block MA, et al. (1994). Economía y Salud. México,
FUNSALUD. (co-author).
Knaul F. (1994). Memorias del Seminario Interinstitucional sobre el Menor
Trabajador en Colombia (editora). Bogotá: Trazo Ltda. “Análisis cuantitativo de la
fuerza de trabajo de los menores en los sectores urbano-rurales y de los niños de la
calle”.
Berry A, Knaul F. (1994). “Empleo, distribución del ingreso y el sector social:
Lecciones para Colombia del boom petrolero de Indonesia”. Planeación y
Desarrollo, Vol. XXV, Edición Especial, July.
Berry A, Montegnegro A, Ramírez LF, Barrios A, Knaul FM, Perfetti M. (1993).
“Capital humano en Colombia”. Planeación y Desarrollo, Vol. XXIV, Edición
Especial, December.
Knaul F. (1993). “Niños en Circunstancias Especialmente Difíciles: su vinculación
escolar”. Planeación y Desarrollo, Vol. XXIV, Edición Especial, December.
Barker G, Knaul F. (1991). Exploited Entrepreneurs: Street and Working Children
in Developing Countries. CHILDHOPE Working Paper No. 1.
PARTICIPATION IN INSTITUTIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
Knaul FM, et al. (2009). Co-author and organizer. “México Reporte Rosa 2009-
2010: Cáncer de mama: a con-ciencia.” A multi-institutional initiative and report
presented by 15 non-governmental organizations and 22 authors.
Secretaría de Educación Pública, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Instituto
Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa, Harvard University Postgraduate
School of Education (2006). Aprender Más y Mejor: Políticas, programas y
oportunidades de aprendizaje en educación básica en México. Colección
Educación y Pedagogía. Fondo de Cultura Económica. (Coordination of project on
behalf of the Secretary of Education).
Rubio, J. (coord.) (2006). La Política educativa y la educación superior en México.
1995-2006: Un balance. México, D. F.: Secretaría de Educación Pública, Fondo de
Cultura Económica. (Coordinator of Project on behalf the Secretary of Education).
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Secretaría de Educación Pública (2006). Equidad, Calidad e Innovación en el
Desarrollo Educativo Nacional. Colección Editorial del Gobierno del Cambio.
Fondo de Cultura Económica. México. (Member of Editorial Committee).
Secretaría de Salud. (2005). Salud: México 2004 Información para la rendición de
cuentas. Secretaría de Salud, México. (Report collaborator).
UNICEF. (2005). “Los primeros pasos.” Vigía de los derechos de la niñez
mexicana, April; 1(1). (Member of Advisory Board UNICEF México).
Secretaría de Salud. (2004). Salud: México 2003 Información para la rendición de
cuentas. Secretaría de Salud, México. (Report collaborator).
Secretaría de Salud. (2003). Salud: México 2002 Información para la rendición de
cuentas. Secretaría de Salud, México. (Report collaborator).
Secretaría de Desarrollo Social-Secretaría de Educación Pública-Secretaría de
Salud (2002). Un México Apropiado para la Infancia y la Adolescencia: Programa
de Acción 2002-2010. México. (Director of analysis and production).
Secretaría de Salud. (2002). Salud: México 2001 Información para la rendición de
cuentas. Secretaría de Salud, México. (Report collaborator).
Secretaría de Salud (2001). Programa Nacional de Salud 2001-2006. Hacia un
Sistema Universal de Salud. México. (Program collaborator).
Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. (2001). Programa Nacional de Desarrollo Social
2001-2006. Superación de la pobreza: una tarea Contigo. Secretaría de Desarrollo
Social, México.
World Health Organization (2000). World Health Report 2000, Health Systems:
Improving Performance. Ginebra. (Work group collaborator).
OTHER:
Memberships in professional associations:
American Economics Association since early 1990s
Latin American and Caribbean Association (LACEA) since late 1990s
Canadian Economic Association since late 1990s
Population Association of America since late 1990s
International Health Economics Association (iHEA) since 1998
Sociedad Mexicana de Salud Pública since 2003
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Languages:
Fluent English, Fluent Spanish, Conversational French.
Computer and Data:
Stata, LIMDEP, TSP and a variety of programs for data processing and
analysis. Experience with data collection, with survey research and design,
and in the analysis of administrative data, and of large, micro data sets
including cross-sectional, time series and panel data.
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (2001-present):
YEAR 2001:
Predicting health and health services. Data, methods and models. ICES, Health
Intelligence Unit, CIHI-ICIS, Ontario. Toronto, Canada. January 22-23.
Presentation: Using the WHO Health System Performance Assessment
framework to predict the impact of health financing reform.
Seminario Internacional Reforma a los Sistemas de Salud: Financiamiento y Equidad.
CIDE, Naciones Unidas, Sociedad Alemana de Cooperación Técnica. Mexico.
January 25.
Moderador: Experiencia Europea.
Seminario Internacional Economía de la Salud: Un insumo para el Desarrollo. INSP-
CIDE-FUNSALUD. Cuernavaca, Mexico. February 14.
Presentation: Extending Health Insurance Coverage in Mexico: Implications for
the Fairness of Health Finance.
Primera Reunión del Voluntariado de la Secretaría de Salud. Mexico. February 23.
Presentation: Introduction.
IX Congreso Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública. INSP. Cuernavaca, Mexico.
March 6.
Presentation: Política fiscal para fomentar la inversión en salud.
Cuarta Reunión de la Comisión de Macroeconomía y Salud. CMH. Etiopía. March 6-
8.
Meeting of working group 1, Commission on Health and Macroeconomics. OPS,
OMS. Washington, USA. April 10-11.
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El campo de la economía de la salud en México. CIDE, INSP. Mexico, April 27.
Presentation: Economía de la salud y mercado laboral en México.
XIV Aniversario del Comité de damas voluntarias del INPER. Instituto Nacional de
Perinatología. Mexico. May 29.
Presentation: Mujer, trabajo y sector salud.
Centro interamericano de estudios de seguridad social y el centro internacional de
formación de la organización internacional del trabajo. Mexico. June 1.
Panel: Los retos de la seguridad social en Latinoamérica. Taller de Regimenes de
Pensiones y Financiamiento de la Seguridad Social en Latinoamérica.
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Cuernavaca, Mexico. June 5-7.
Panel: Estrategias de utilización de la información científica para la toma de
decisiones en la equidad de salud.
5th Meeting of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. SSA, OMS, OPS,
SHCP. Mexico. June 11-14.
Organizer.
The Global Burden of Disease 2000 in Aging Populations. CASEsalud-FUNSALUD-
Harvard. June 12-13.
Taller de planeación el seguro popular de salud. SSA. Cocoyoc, Mexico. July 27.
Presentation: Diseño básico y sustento teórico-empírico de la protección
financiera.
Seminario Permanente de Economía y Salud. CASEsalud-FUNSALUD. México. July
24.
Presentation: Protección Financiera y el Seguro de Salud para todos.
Foro Equidad y Género en el Desarrollo Social. Inmujeres. Mexico. August 7.
Panel.
II Foro interamericano de liderazgo en salud. FUNSALUD, OPS, BID, Asociación
Colombiana de Salud. Colombia. October 18-19.
Presentation: El programa de protección financiera de México.
Measuring Up. Improving Health Systems Performance in OECD Countries. OECD.
Canada. November 5-7.
Member of committee.
Coloquio Nacional para el Análisis de la Aplicación del Protocolo Facultativo de la
CEDAW. Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres. Mexico. November 22-23.
Presentation: Género y Salud.
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International Summit on the Private Health Sector. Bal Harbour. USA. December 2-5.
Panamerican Health in the 21st Century: Strengthening of International Cooperation
and Development of Human Capital. Cancún, Mexico. December 5.
Presentation: Povery and Health.
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR). Geneva. December 10-12.
Presentation: Financial Protection.
Work Group Meeting. World Health Organization. Geneva. December 10-12.
Reunión con el Voluntariado de la Secretaría de Salud. México.
Presentation: Protección Financiera.
Reunión con el Voluntariado de la Secretaría de Salud. México.
Presentation: Presentación del Plan Nacional de Salud.
Reunión con el Voluntariado de la Secretaría de Salud. Durango, México.
Presentation: Protección Financiera.
Presentación. Congreso Nacional de Salud. Voluntariado de la Secretaría de Salud.
Mazatlán, México.
YEAR 2002:
Programa de Colaboración. Institutos Nacionales de Salud (INSALUD) e Institutos
Canadienses de Investigación en Salud (CIHR). SSA-CIHR. Mexico. January 23.
Participation: Introduction.
Seminario Seguridad Social y Políticas en Salud, con énfasis en Equidad. OPS/OMS-
CIESS. Mexico. March 11-15.
Panel: Modelos de financiamiento en salud.
Taller de evaluación y capacitación de la coordinación general de Micro regiones.
Coordinación General de Micro regiones, Subsecretaría de Desarrollo Social.
Veracruz, Mexico. March 21-22.
Social and economic impacts of liberalization and globalization: effects on labor
markets and income distribution. Conference in honor of Professor Albert Berry.
Centre for international studies program on Latin American and the Caribbean,
University of Toronto. Canada. April 19-20.
X Reunión Nacional de Trabajo Social. Instituto Nacional de Perinatología. México,
D.F. May 20-21.
Presentation: Salud y condición social de la mujer.
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Endometriosis 2002, Mexico City: A disease of Insuline Sensitivity. Asociación de
Endometriosis Capítulo Mexicano, A. C. México, D.F. June 19.
Seminario Internacional Economía de la Salud una herramienta para los tomadores de
decisiones en los servicios de salud y para el diseño de políticas de salud. IMSS-
CISS-CAMS-INSP-OPS. México, D. F. June 20-21.
Presentation: Desigualdad, Pobreza y Salud.
Seminario Permanente de Economía y Salud. CASEsalud-FUNSALUD. México,
D.F. June 27.
Presentation: Costos de la violencia intrafamiliar: un modelo de capital humano
aplicado a México y Colombia.
Taller-Seminario Deficiencias de Micronutrimentos y su Impacto en la Salud de
México. Institute Life Sciences of México, A. C. México, D.F. July 18.
Seminario Género y Pobreza: Retos y Perspectivas. INDESOL. México, D.F. July 29-
30.
Presentation: Género y Tablero de Control de Indicadores.
Advisory Council UNICEF. México, D.F. August 30.
Presentation: Presentation of Manual “Contigo”.
Ciclo de Conferencias del CIDE. CIDE. México, D.F. September 23.
Presentation: Innovación en Política Social y en Nutrición.
Niños de la calle. Foro Social Niñez en Pobreza. México, D.F. September 25.
Jornadas de Economía de la Salud (talleres). INSP-ECOS-FUNSALUD-SSA-IMSS.
Cuernavaca, Morelos. Mexico. September 26.
Moderador.
Senior Policy Seminar on Health, Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory,
evidence and policies. OPS, BID. Washington, USA. October 3-4.
Red por la infancia y la adolescencia. México, D.F. October 10.
Presentation: “Programa de Acción a Favor de la Infancia”.
Foro Nacional de Experiencias de Intervenciones en Nutrición Comunitaria. La
Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación y las
Instituciones Organizadoras. Nuevo León, México. October 24-25.
Panel.
Teleconferencia sobre Ventajas y Oportunidades para el Desarrollo Social.
INDESOL-ILCE. México, D.F. November 8.
Presentation: “Programa de Acción a Favor de la Infancia”.
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Reunión del Consejo Consultivo de UNICEF. México, D.F. November 25.
Presentation: “Programa de Acción a Favor de la Infancia”.
INSP. Cuernavaca, Morelos. México. December 2.
Presentation: “Programa de Acción a Favor de la Infancia”.
YEAR 2003:
X Congreso de Investigación en Salud Pública. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública.
Cuernavaca, Morelos. México. March 5-7.
Presentation: Economía para la salud.
Moderator.
Conformación del Consejo Promotor de Competitividad y Salud. FUNSALUD.
México, D.F. April 11.
Presentation: Competitividad y Salud.
Reunión del Consejo Directivo y Asamblea de Asociados de FUNSALUD. México,
D.F. May 13.
Presentation: Competitividad y Salud.
4th World Congress Global Health Economics. International Health Economics
Association. San Francisco, USA. June 15-18.
Reunión del Consejo Directivo Competitividad y Salud con el secretario de Salud.
FUNSALUD. México, D.F. July 16.
Presentation: Competitividad y Salud.
Seminario Políticas Públicas en el Nuevo Orden Global. Universidad Autónoma de
Sinaloa. Sinaloa, México. September 5.
Presentation: La Evaluación del desempeño del Sistema de Salud en México y la
necesidad de un sistema de protección social.
De la desnutrición a la Obesidad. Universidad Iberoamericana. México, D.F.
September 29.
Presentation: Las transiciones social y económica y su influencia en el estado de
nutrición.
Congreso Lacea. Latin American and Caribbean Economists Association. Puebla,
México. October 9-11.
Presentation: La democratización de la salud: el impacto en la justicia del
financiamiento y los gastos catastróficos.
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Reunión Anual Laboratorios Silanes. Laboratorios Silanes. México, D.F. November
5.
Presentation: Competitividad y Salud.
Reunión Plenaria Coparmex. Coparmex. México, D.F. November 14.
Presentation: Competitividad y Salud.
Presentación del libro: Caleidoscopio de la Salud: De la investigación a las políticas y
de las políticas a la acción. FUNSALUD. México, D.F. November 17.
Presentation.
Seminario de Economía y Financiamiento de la Salud. Universidad Autónoma de
Chiapas. Chiapas, México. December 12.
YEAR 2004:
Conferencia Mariano Otero, México, D.F. February 3.
Presentation: “La reforma 2003: El sistema de Protección Social en Salud: hacia
un sistema universal en salud con proteccion financiera”.
XI Reunión de Titulares de Educación de los estados con el secretario de Educación
Pública, Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit. March 4.
Presentation: “Disponibilidad y distribución de las TIC’s en la Educación
Básica: Ciclo Escolar 2002-2003”.
Simposio Fundación Mexicana para la Salud: Una Visión Estratégica, México. March
10.
Presentation: Competitividad y Salud.
Conferencia EUROLAC, Recife, Brasil. April 14-15.
Presentation: “Reform 2003: The System for Social Protection in Health:
Applying analysis of financial protection in health evidence for policymaking”.
Presentation: “Reform 2003: The System for Social Protection in Health: Subnational
analysis on financial protection in health evidence for policymaking”.
Conferencia Internacional: Innovaciones en el Financiamiento de la Salud. México,
D. F. April 21.
Presentation: “The role of FUNSALUD in generating and catalyzing of evidence
for policy making and health reform: examples from health economics and
quantitative analysis”.
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Taller Conferencia Internacional de Innovaciones en el Financiamiento de la Salud,
México, D. F. April 22.
Presentation: “Measuring and applying fairness of finance, catastrophic spending
and impoverishing health care to the Reform 2003”.
Participación especial de Asuntos Internacionales, Parlamento Infantil, México, D.F.
April 29.
Presentation: “Necesidades y Prioridades para Niñas y Jóvenes”.
Convención Nacional de Aseguradores. AMIS. Hotel Nikko. México, D. F. May 18.
Presentation: “Competitividad y salud”.
Consejo Promotor Competitividad y Salud, FUNSALUD, Club de Industriales.
México, D. F. May 27.
Presentation: “Competitividad y Salud”.
Global Forum for Health Research. Helping correct the 10/90 gap Mexico Forum 8.
México, D. F. September-November.
Member of Organizing Committee.
Seminario Internacional Educación y Competitividad, Instituto de Fomento e
Investigación Educativa, A. C. México, D. F. November 4-5.
Presentation: “La importancia de la educación para la competitividad”.
LVIII Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Mexicana de Salud Pública “Perspectivas de la
corresponsabilidad en salud pública”. México, D. F. November 23.
Presentation: “Aplicación del Análisis sobre protección financiera en salud: Un
ejemplo del uso de la evidencia económica en el diseño de políticas saludables”.
YEAR 2005:
Magno Congreso del Centenario. Hospital General de México. Unidad de Congresos
del Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS. México, D. F. February 7-9.
Presentation: “Presencia de la Mujer en la Salud en México”.
XI Congreso de Investigación en Salud Pública “Planeación para los desafíos que
enfrentará el financiamiento de los sistemas de salud”. INSP, Cuernavaca, Mor.,
México. March 2.
Presentation: “Los grandes desafíos para el sistema de salud en los próximos
años: 2002-2050”
HAA Global Series. México, D. F. March 2.
Presentation: “The Health and Wealth of Nations: The importance of financial
protection. Evidence from the Mexican health reform of 2003”.
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XI Congreso de Investigación en Salud Pública “Equidad y protección en el
financiamiento de la salud: Evaluación y medición”. INSP, Cuernavaca, Mor.,
México. March 3.
Presentation: “Desafíos para la medición de la protección financiera de los
sitemas de salud y su aplicación en la toma de decisiones: La reforma de 2003 y el
Sistema de Protección Financiera en Salud”.
Seminario de Investigación en Sistemas de Salud. INSP, Cuernavaca, Mor., México.
March 22.
Presentation: “Desafíos futuros, equidad y protección financiera del sistema de
salud”.
XVIII Reunión Anual de Damas Voluntarias. Instituto Nacional de Perinatología.
México, D. F. April 18.
Presentation: “Transición epidemiológica y rezago educativo”.
Programa Académico 2005. Academia Nacional de Medicina “Innovación,
competitividad y salud: Un reto del sistema de salud”. Academia Nacional de
Medicina. México, D. F. April 20.
Presentation: “Competitividad y salud: Experiencias y resultados”.
Mexico Business Forum. México, D.F. April 26.
Presentation: “Educación, salud y competitividad”.
Alzheimer México I.A.P. “Una Esperanza de Vida”. Club de Industriales. México, D.
F. May 3.
Participation: Speaker.
InfoGen A. C. “Infórmate para prevenir”. Club de Empresarios. México, D. F. May
25.
Participation: Speaker.
Seminario “La salud de los mexicanos en el siglo XXI: un futuro con responsabilidad
de todos”. Fundación Mexicana para la Salud. México, D. F. June 13.
Presentation: “Salud y competitividad”.
Seminario Permanente de Investigación en Salud Pública. Instituto Nacional de Salud
Pública, Cuernavaca, Mor., México. July 8-9.
Presentation: “Tendencias en la protección financiera en salud: 1992-2004”.
5th IHEA World Congress. Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain. July 11-13.
Presentation: “Fairness of finance of households financial contribution”.
Moderator: “Children and health insurance II”.
Reunión Regional de Control Escolar. Dirección General de Acreditación,
Incorporación y Revalidación. Chihuahua, Chih., México. July 5-8.
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Presentation: “Sigamos aprendiendo… en el hospital”.
LXVI Congreso Nacional de Agentes Aduanales. Cancún, Q. Roo., México. July 20-
24.
Presentation: “Sigamos aprendiendo… en el hospital”.
General Consultation on the Ellison Institute, Cuernavaca, Mor., México. August 11-
12.
Presentation: “Economic Analysis: Financial Protection”.
Seminario “Plaza Sésamo: Hábitos Saludables para toda la Vida”. México, D. F.
August 25.
Presentation: “Sigamos aprendiendo… en el hospital”.
United Nations expert group meeting on social and economic implications of
changing population age structures. UNDP and Consejo Nacional de Población.
México, D. F. September 1.
Presentation: Los grandes desafíos para el sistema de salud de México en los
próximos años: 2000 – 2050. Costos y Envejecimiento.
Ageing in Europe: turning Weakness into Strength. Rome, Italy. September 15-16.
Second Conference on Aging in the Americas: Key Issues in Hispanic Health and
Health Care Policy Research. University of Texas, Austin, Texas. September 21-22.
Participation: Discussant. The Economics of Hispanic Aging: New findings for
Mexican Health an Aging Studies.
1er. Foro Nacional de Tecnologías en Salud. México, D. F. October 4.
Presentation: “Sigamos aprendiendo… en el hospital”
Congreso Conmemorativo XXXV Aniversario del Instituto Nacional de Pediatría.
México, D. F. October 26-28.
Presentation: “Innovaciones educativas en niños y jóvenes viviendo con alguna
enfermedad, Sigamos aprendiendo… en el hospital”.
Foro Internacional de Metodologías Didácticas Innovadoras en la Educación Básica,
IFIE (Instituto de Fomento e Investigación Educativa, A. C). México, D. F.
November 15.
Presentation: “Sigamos aprendiendo… en el hospital”.
LIX Reunión Anual “Salud Pública: Hacia la construcción de una nueva agenda
nacional en Salud”. Villahermosa, Tabasco. México. November 21-26.
Presentation: “Sigamos aprendiendo… en el hospital”.
XII Reunión Nacional de Directores de Colegios Estatales de CONALEP. México, D.
F. December. 2.
Presentation: “Sigamos aprendiendo… en el hospital”.
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YEAR 2006:
Seventh Annual Conference of the Global Development Network, St. Petersburg,
Russia. January 19-21.
Presentation and prize competition: “Preventing impoverishment, promoting
equality and protecting households from financial crisis: Universal health
insurance through financial reform in Mexico.
Consejo Consultivo, Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, Oficinas de Nestlé, México,
D. F, February 14.
Presentation: “Previniendo el empobrecimiento, promoción de la equidad y
protección de las familias de las crisis financieras: Aseguramiento universal en
salud a través de una reforma institucional en México”.
Club de Industriales de la Ciudad de México. February 16.
Presentation: “Previniendo el empobrecimiento, promoción de la equidad y
protección de las familias de las crisis financieras: Aseguramiento universal en
salud a través de una reforma institucional en México”.
Instituto Nacional de Perinatología. México, D. F. March 28.
Presentation: “Sigamos aprendiendo… en el hospital”.
Global Health Education Consortium: 15th Annual GHEC Conference. “Crossroads
in Global Health: The dual Challenge of Infectious and Chronic Diseases”. University
of Toronto. Canada. April 20-21.
Presentation: “Concurrent Panel-External financing for health in developing
countries: Equity and Efficiency Challenges”.
Cámara Británica de Comercio, México, D. F. June 15.
Presentation: “Salud y competitividad: Importancia de la protección financiera y
la organización del financiamiento”
Brookings Health Financing Week Comparative Research on Health Financing
Planning Meeting. Washington DC, July 26.
Participation: Presentation and co-organization of the workshop meeting on
health spending research.
Ministerial Policy Forum: Evidence for health system reform: Global lessons from
national experience. México, D. F. October 4-6.
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Participation: Event organization; presentation: “Evidence is good for your
health system: Policy reform to remedy catastrophic and impoverishing health
spending.”
International Seminar “Inclusión educativa para niños, niñas y jóvenes hospitalizados
y que viven con enfermedad”. Instituto Nacional de Cardiología, México, D. F.
October 17-18.
Participation: Event organization; presentation “Los derechos educativos de los
niños, niñas y jóvenes que viven con enfermedad: una visión internacional”.
The Mexico Business Forum. Seminario “Salud para el Futuro.” México, D. F.
October 18.
Presentation: Los principales desafíos de los sistemas de salud en el mundo.
The Mexico Business Summit. Monterrey, Nuevo León. México. October 30.
Presentation: Health and the future of Mexico´s wealth.
Presentation of book: “Aprender Más y Mejor: Políticas, programas y oportunidades
de aprendizaje en educación básica en México”. Residencial Oficial de Los Pinos.
México, D. F. November 6.
Participation: Event organization.
Conference “La distribución y dispensión de medicamentos. Eslabón vital en el
sistema de salud. México, D. F. November 14-15.
Presentation: “Hacia un sistema de salud más eficaz y eficiente”.
Presentation of book: “Inclusión educativa para niños, niñas y jóvenes hospitalizados.
Un análisis nacional de México Sigamos aprendiendo…en el hospital”. Residencia
Oficial Los Pinos. México, D. F. November 21.
Participation: Event organization, and
Presentation of book: “Inclusión educativa para niños, niñas y jóvenes
hospitalizados. Un análisis nacional de México Sigamos aprendiendo…en el
hospital”.
LX Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Mexicana de Salud Pública A. C. Veracruz, Ver.,
Mexico. November 23.
Presentation of book: “Inclusión educativa para niños, niñas y jóvenes
hospitalizados. Un análisis nacional de México: Sigamos aprendiendo…en el
hospital”.
Consultation Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Life: Health, what we know,
what more we should know and how we can find out. Washington DC, December 8.
Presentation: The importance of health spending.
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YEAR 2007
International Seminar “Conditional Cash Transfers: Lessons from Abroad” New York
City Center for Economic Opportunity. New York University, New York, January 25.
Participation: Event organizer
Presentations: “Program Design and evaluation Findings of Mexico’s
Progresa/Oportunidades”; Panel Discussion: Operations an Administration of
CCT Programs.
XII Congreso de Investigación en Salud Pública. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública,
Cuernavaca, Morelos. Mexico. March 7-9.
Moderator: Contribuciones y limitaciones de la evaluación económica en la
conformación del paquete básico de servicios públicos en el sector salud.
Presentation of book: “La reforma del sistema de salud mexicano.” Número
especial de la revista Salud Pública de México.
Johnson & Johnson, High-level executive meeting; “Leadership and Growth”,
Orlando, Florida, March 26.
Presentation: “Latin American Health in Transition: Achievements, Challenges
and Opportunities for Action”.
Forum “Nuevos Rumbos de las Políticas de Salud en México”, Comisión de Salud de
la H. Cámara de Diputados LX Legislatura, México, D. F. April 25.
Presentation: “Desarrollo Económico, Equidad y Combate a la Pobreza: el papel
del financiamiento de la salud”.
World Congress, International Health Economics Association (iHEA). Explorations
in Health. Copenhagen, Denmark. July 8-11.
Organized session: Catastrophic and Impoverishing Health Spending and
Financial Protection in Latin America: Country-level analysis.
Presentation: Catastrophic and Impoverishing Health Spending and Financial
Protection: Evidence from Mexico.
Innovations for an Urban World: A Global Urban Summit. Bellagio, Italy. The
Rockefeller Foundation. July 15-20.
Participation: Improving urban population systems. Week 3: July 15-20.
1er Seminario de Fortalecimiento Institucional Pfizer “Construyendo Lazos para
Mejorar la Salud Comunitaria”. México, D.F. August 16-17.
Presentation: Keynote address: Acceso a la salud para todos: las alianzas entre
empresas, gobiernos y sociedad civil.
Kaiser Media Fellowships Program: Fellow’s Meeting. Washington, DC, September
24-27.
Participation: Speaker.
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Health Financing Task Force. Brookings Institute. Washington, DC, September 25.
Presentation: Financial Protection.
Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. New York, USA. September 26-28.
First Meeting of the Working Group on Financial Protection in Health. Funded by
IDRC Canada. México, D. F., FUNSALUD. October 15-18.
Participation: Event organizer.
Presentations: Case Study: Mexico; Indicadores y medición de protección
financiera.
YEAR 2008
NGO Workshop on Breast Cancer in Mexico. FUNSALUD. México, D. F. January
23.
Participation: Event organizer.
Presentation: El Cáncer de Mama: Tómatelo a Pecho.
Workshop on Operative Strategies 2008. Instituto Carso de la Salud. Cuernavaca,
Morelos. Mexico. January 24-25.
Presentation: Observatorio de la Salud: Medir para innovar. Una iniciativa para
América Latina y el Caribe; El Cáncer de Mama: Tómatelo a Pecho.
Burden of Disease in Latin America. Regional meeting for Health Observatory.
FUNSALUD. México, D. F. February 7-8.
Presentation: Observatorio de la Salud, Medir para innovar. Una iniciativa para
América Latina y el Caribe.
Celebración Día Internacional de la Mujer, Fundación DAR, A. C. e Instituto
Jalisciense de Cirugía Reconstructiva “Dr. José Guerrero Santos”, Guadalajara, Jal.,
Mexico. March 7.
Presentation: Testimonio de fortaleza frente a la adversidad, aprendiendo a hacer
ante el cáncer de mama.
Global Health Metrics and Evaluation: Current State and Future Directions, Cosponsored
by: Institute for Health Metric and Evaluation and the Lancet. México, D.
F. April 9-10.
Presentation: Financial protection and health system performance assessment:
what next?
Presentación oficial de Observatorio de la Salud: Iniciativa para América Latina y el
Caribe. Instituto Carso de la Salud, Fundación Mexicana para la Salud. México, D. F.
July 9.
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Programa Anual de Verano en Actualización en Salud Pública y Epidemiología,
Biomarcadores Tumorales, Epidemilogía Molecular y Tratamiento del Cáncer de
Mama, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Cuernavaca, Morelos. Mexico. July 28-
Agust 01.
Profesor, Presentation: Cáncer de Mama en México: Tendencia en la mortalidad
y utilización de servicios de Salud.
International Consultation to Design a Collaborative Community on Health Metrics
and Evaluation. Carso Health Institute. México, D.F. September 17-18.
Participation: Event organizer and presentation.
Presentation: LAC Health Observatory: From Measurement to Innovation.
Second Meeting of the Working Group on Financial Protection in Health. Funded by
IDRC Canada. México, D.F., FUNSALUD. Workshop for new countries, September
19-21. Meeting of Principal investigators, September 22-23.
Participation: Event organizer.
Presentation: Case Study: Mexico; Indicadores y medición de protección
financiera.
Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. New York, USA. September 24-26.
Participation:
1) Member, Global Health Group;
2) Chair of the Panel “Healthy Transitions for Adolescent Girls”;
3) Individual Commitment: Cáncer de Mama en América Latina: Tómatelo a
Pecho (Breast Cancer in Latin America: Take it to heart); a regional awareness
campaign.
Congreso Internacional Salud de la Mujer 2008. Tampico, Tamaulipas. Mexico.
October 6.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: Reto Emergente para la Salud y los Sistemas de
Salud.
Pharma-LAWG working group meeting. México, D.F. October 15.
Presentation: Opportunities for improving efficiency and equity in the mexican
health system.
Seminario Estatal de Capacitación sobre el Cáncer. Hermosillo, Sonora. Mexico.
October 17.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: Reto Emergente para la Salud y los Sistemas de
Salud.
III Congreso de Economía de la Salud de América Latina y el Caribe. Habana, Cuba.
October 31.
Session organizer: LAC Health Observatory.
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Presentation: Observatorio de la Salud: Medir para innovar; Iniciativa para
América Latina y el Caribe: Avances a nivel institucional y en el desarrollo de
métrica en salud.
Congreso Internacional de Cirugía Plástica. Puerta Vallarta, Nayarit. Mexico.
November 7.
Presentation: Personal testimony.
Seminario Internacional, Cáncer de mama: Retos y respuestas. México, D.F.
November 18-19.
Participation: Event organizer.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: Prioridad apremiante
LXII Reunión Anual. Sociedad Mexicana de Salud Pública A.C. Tampico,
Tamaulipas, Mexico. November 17-22.
Session on November 20.- El cáncer: una emergencia que requiere un abordaje
integral
Presentation: Emergencia del cáncer de mama en México.
Session on November 21.- Observatorio de la Salud
Coordinator of the session and speaker
Presentation: Observatorio de la salud: Una iniciativa para América Latina y el
Caribe
Economic Crises and Health: Risk or Opportunity? December 2. Harvard University.
Cambridge, MA. Seminar sponsored by the Center for History and Economics of
Harvard University and the China Medical Board.
Panel presentation: Financial crisis, health outcomes, health spending: Evidence
from Mexico.
YEAR 2009
Jornada Científica del 40 Aniversario del Ministerio de Salud de Panamá. Panamá,
Panamá. January 15.
Presentation: Salud, mujer y crisis económica, la importancia de la equidad, la
calidad y la protección financiera, El caso del cáncer de mama.
Seminarios organizados por el DIF del estado de Durango. Durango, Mexico. January
22.
Presentations:
1) Cáncer de mama: retos y respuestas (audience: health professionals);
2) Testimonio personal (audience: patients, survivors and non-governmental
organizations)
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Seminarios organizados por el DIF del estado de Sinaloa. Culiacán, Sinaloa. Mexico.
February 3.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: retos y respuestas (audience: health
professionals, patients, survivors and non-governmental organizations).
LAC Health Observatory National Health Accounts Network-Mexican Health
Foundation-WHO-Fundación Plenitud: LAC meeting on the global initiative “System
of Health Accounts revision”. México, D.F. January 28.
Co-host and co-organizer.
Presentation: National Health Accounts in Mexico: an example of national
global synergy for catalyzing evidence and information for policy.
Radcliffe Seminar, Leadership Development in Global Women's Health, Harvard
University. Boston, MA. March 21.
Presentation: Reflections on leadership in global women´s health: a personal
experience with breast cancer combining research, evidence and advocacy.
13° Congreso de Salud Pública de México. Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. March 3 to
6.
Moderator of the session: Observatorio de la salud. Experiencias en métricas en
América Latina
Presentation:
1) Cáncer de mama en América Latina: mitos y metas. Session: Cáncer de mama:
retos y respuestas
2) Los efectos de las remesas sobre el gasto catastrófico y empobrecedor en
México: Session – Protección social en salud
3) Cáncer de Máma: reto para la sociedad y para los sistemas de salud.
Presentation of the Special Edition of Salud Pública de México.
Holy Blossom Temple Synagogue Sisterhood. Toronto. March 19.
Personal Testimony: Living with breast cancer.
Participatory Panel on Public Health Priorities: Breast Cancer in Developing
Countries: An Unforeseen Public Health Priority. At the Harvard School of Public
Health, Boston. April 14. Co-organizer with Julio Frenk.
Presentation: Breast Cancer in Mexico: a pressing priority
Jornada de Economía de la Salud de la Universidad de Costa Rica, San José. April 21.
Presentation: Mujer, Salud y Crisis Económica: el caso del cáncer de mama
Instituto de Investigación para la Salud y Nutrición de Costa Rica, San José. April 22.
Presentation: Observatorio de la Salud para América Latina y el Caribe: la
importancia de la métrica para la toma de decisiones en salud
Consejo Directivo. Funsalud. México, D.F. May 22.
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Presentation: Costo Ecónomico de la Influenza en México AH1N1.
Global Health and Equity luncheon meeting. IDRC Canada. Ottawa. June 11.
Presentation: Financial protection in health: policy instrument for preventing
impoverishment in the face of epidemiological transition and economic crisis.
Regional meeting of NGOs working on breast cancer. American Cancer Society. Río
de Janeiro. June 14.
Presentation: Tómatelo a Pecho: an example of evidence-based advocacy.
Second LAC Health Observatory National Health Accounts Network-Mexican Health
Foundation-WHO-Fundación Plenitud: LAC meeting on the global initiative “System
of Health Accounts revision”. July. Mexico City.
Co-host and co-organizer.
Presentation: National Health Accounts and Financial Protection.
Comisión Nacional de los derechos Humanos. International Seminar: La desigualdad
entre mujeres y hombres, un obstáculo para el acceso al derecho humano a la salud;
Panel de Cáncer de Mama, Cáncer de Próstata y Cáncer de Testículo. July 8. Mexico
City.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: Prioridad apremiante
Livestrong Global Cancer Summit. Collaboration for Transformation: Putting
commitments to work. 25 August, 2009. Dublin, Ireland.
Presentation: Evidence-based advocacy
Reunión Comité Técnico de la Coordinación Nacional del Programa
OPORTUNIDADES. Mexico City. August 13.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante
Workshop. Tómatelo a Pecho for Programa OPORTUNIDADES, Sinaloa, Durango,
Michoacán. Mexico City. August 18.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante
Presentation to the medical community. Instituto Nacional de Cancerología. Mexico
City. Septiembre 8.
Presentation: México Reporte Rosa 2009-2010: Cáncer de mama a con-ciencia.
Community meeting. Tómatelo a Pecho. Mexican Health Foundation. Mexico City.
September 8.
Presentation: México Reporte Rosa 2009-2010: Cáncer de mama a con-ciencia.
The weekend to end breast cancer. Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. Toronto.
September 12.
Presentation: Personal testimony and global challenge of breast cancer.
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Meeting of the Consejo Promotor Competitividad y Salud. Funsalud. Mexico City. 23
September.
Presentation: Towards universal health coverage.
Global Chat, Harvard School of Public Health. Boston. September 30.
Presentation: Breast Cancer in the Developing World: Meeting the Unforeseen
Challenge to Women, Health and Equity, An example of evidence-based
advocacy.
Seminar organized by National Institute of Public Health. Cuernavaca. October 8.
Presentation: México Reporte Rosa 2009-2010: Cáncer de mama a con-ciencia.
Book launch. Funsalud with First Lady Margarita Zavala. October 11.
Presentation: Personal testimony. Book presentation: “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
Report launch with First Lady Margarita Zavala. Instituto Nacional de Perinatología.
October 12.
Presentation: México Reporte Rosa 2009-2010: Cáncer de mama a con-ciencia.
Seminar organized by DIF-Durango. Tómatelo a Pecho. Durango. October 13.
Presentation: México Reporte Rosa 2009-2010: Cáncer de mama: a con-ciencia.
Lunch talk organized by DIF-Durango. Tómatelo a Pecho. Durango, México October
13.
Presentation: Personal testimony. Book presentation: “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
International seminar: Breast cancer in the developing world: meeting the unforeseen
challenge to women, health and equity. November 2-5. Boston.
Chief organizer. Leaders from more than 30 countries in attendance. Convened
an inter-institutional, multi-national organizing committee including the Harvard
Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women´s
Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Presentations:
1) Experience exchange forum. Nov 2. Expanded access to cancer care and
control: global task, local action.
2) Experience exchange forum. Nov 2. The Mexico Pink Paper.
3) Panel. Expanded Cancer Control and Care in Developing Countries:
Innovations in Financing, Procurement and Delivery. Presentation: Global Task
Force on Expanded Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries.
Consultation. World Health Report 2010. World Health Organization. Rockefeller
Foundation. Bellagio, Italy. November 13, 2009
Presentation: WHR 2010. A focus on Inequality.
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YEAR 2010
Jornada Académica realizada en Homenaje a la Lic. en Enf. Sor María Suárez
Vázquez, National Institute of Cardiology “Ignacio Chávez”. Mexico City. January
29.
Presentation: “El líder y su proyección social”.
Meeting of the Consejo Promotor Competitividad y Salud. Funsalud. Mexico City.
February 22.
Presentation: De Economía y Salud hacia Competitividad y Salud y la
Universalización de los Servicios de Salud.
Desayuno conferencia “Prevención del Cáncer de Mama”, Hadassah México, Centro
Comunitario Maguen David. Mexico City. February 23.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: Prioridad apremiante para la salud de los países
en vías de desarrollo”
XXXI Feria Internacional del Libro del Palacio de Minería. Mexico City. Con la
participación como comentarista de la escritora Guadalupe Loaeza. February 27.
Presentation: Personal testimony. Book presentation: “Tómatelo a Pecho”
Auditorium of the Henrietta Szold Hadassah-Hebrew University, School of Nursing,
Israel. March 15.
Presentation: “Breast cancer in the developing world: an unforeseen public
health priority”
Sharett Institute of Oncology, Israel. March 15.
Presentation: “Breast cancer in the developing world: an unforeseen public
health priority”
Hospital de la Mujer, Yautepec, Morelos. Mexico. March 23.
Presentations:
1) Personal testimony. Book presentation: “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
2) “Cáncer de mama: Prioridad apremiante para la salud en México”.
Hospital General de Occidente, Guadalajara, Jalisco. México. March 25.
Presentations:
1) Personal testimony. Book presentation: “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
2) Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: Prioridad apremiante para la salud en
México”.
Pan American Health Organization. April 26, 2010.
Presentation: “Overview of The Global Task Force on Cancer Care and Control
in Developing Countries”
Health and Crises: A historical perspective on health and economic crises in Latin
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America and the Portuguese speaking world. Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Joint
Center for History and Economics, DRCLAS-Brazil Studies Program, Mexican
Health Foundation, and Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). May 4.
Presentation: Closing Remarks
Women's Hospital, Yautepec, Morelos. México. May 18.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: Prioridad apremiante para la salud en México”.
Desayuno conferencia “La importancia de la información del cáncer de mama”,
Asociación Mexicana en Dirección de Recursos Humanos, A.C. (AMEDIRH), Mexico
City. May 19.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud de la mujer
en México”.
Seminario “Los sistemas de salud en Latinoamérica”. Fundación Plenitud, Santo
Domingo, República Dominicana. May 20.
Presentations:
1) Discurso en la ceremonia de “Lanzamiento del Observatorio de la Salud de
República Dominicana”
2) Conferencia Magistral “Sistemas de salud: Desafíos para alcanzar la
universalidad”
Seminario “La salud de la mujer y el cáncer de mama”. Fundación Plenitud, Santo
Domingo, República Dominicana. May 21.
Presentations:
1) “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud de la mujer en América
Latina”
2) Personal testimony. Book presentation: “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
Reunión con Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil y Secretaría de Salud de Nuevo
León. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. May 24.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud de la mujer
en México”
Reunión con Promotoras de la Salud y Secretaría de Salud de Nuevo León. Monterrey,
Nuevo León, Mexico. May 24.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud de las
mexicanas”
Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing
Countries Meeting. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. June 2.
Presentations:
1) “Introduction; and Mexico: National Cancer Institute of Mexico, Popular
Health Insurance, MOH of the States of Jalisco, Morelos and Nuevo Leon,
Tómatelo a Pecho, and Mexican Health Foundation”
2) “Promoting and implementing recommendations: Global and local strategies”
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Global Summit on International Breast Health: Optimizing Healthcare Delivery Breast
Health Global Initiative, Chicago, Illinois. June 10.
Presentation: “Moving from policy to action in early detection program
development”
Global Health Conference: Goal & Metrics. The Global Health Council, Washington,
D.C. June 16.
Presentation: “New Frontiers in Global Health”
Continuing Medical Education Course, Harrington Memorial Hospital, Southbridge,
Massachusetts. June 17.
Presentation: “Breast Cancer in the Developing World: An Unforeseen Health
Priority”
Biennial of the Americas. Denver, CO. July 8.
Panelist: America’s Roundtable on Health: Transnational Threats
Reunión-Taller Cáncer de Mama: Tómatelo a Pecho. Instituto Nacional de Salud
Pública. Cuernavaca, Morelos. México. Julio 14.
Presentations:
1) Retos y respuestas al cáncer en países en vías de desarrollo: incrementar el
acceso al control y tratamiento.
2) Proyecto en México: Innovaciones en la detección el diagnóstico y el
tratamiento del cáncer de mama en México.
Conferencia Magistral “Cáncer de mama”, Secretaría de la Función Pública, México.
Julio 22.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud de la mujer
en México”.
Foro "De la ampliación de la cobertura a la tutela del derecho a la salud: las reformas
de segunda generación al Seguro Popular". Comisión Nacional de Protección Social en
Salud. ITAM. México. Agosto 5.
Moderator: La perspectiva del afiliado. Retos para mejorar la calidad y la certeza
en la cobertura en salud.
Taller de capacitación a promotoras de la salud “Detección temprana del cáncer de
mama: una tarea de todos”. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Cuernavaca, Morelos.
México. Agosto 11.
Presentation: Testimonio personal. Presentación del libro: “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
Union for International Cancer Control: World Cancer Congress 2010. Shenzhen,
China August 20.
Plenary Session: “Cancer control and the development agenda for economic and
social advancement.”
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Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. New York. September 21-23.
Panelist: “Special Session on Addressing Cancer in the Developing World:
Health Equity and an Overlooked Public Health Crisis.” September 22.
Harvard School of Public Health Leadership Council. Boston. October 7.
Presentation: “Why women and cancer: why now?”
Harvard Medical School Global Health Delivery and Oncology Student Interest Group.
Boston. October 7.
Presentation: “Innovations in Global Health Delivery: Cancer care and control in
lower and middle-income countries.”
La Salud de los Mexicanos y Funsalud. 25th Anniversary of the Mexican Health
Foundation. Mexico City. October 13.
Panel presentation: Cobertura Universal en Salud: Estrategias diagonales y el
ejemplo del cáncer de mama
Panel presentation: Competitividad y Salud: La relación dual
SIOP. 42nd Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology. Boston.
October 22.
Plenary session: “Cancer survival need not be determined by income: Lessons
from developing countries and focusing on children.”
Meeting of the national chapter of the LAC Health Observatory. San Jose, Costa Rica.
October 28.
Presentation: Observatorio LAC de la Salud y la metrica en salud.
Proceso Social del Cáncer de Mama en Costa Rica. Launch of a report on Breast
Cancer. San José, Costa Rica. October 28.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud de la mujer
Detección temprana del cáncer de mama: una tarea de todos. International seminar,
Guadalajara, Mexico. October 29.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en México
Health Promoter Training Workshop of the Ministry of Health of the State of Jalisco
and the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico. Guadalajara, Mexico. October
29.
Personal testimony and training in barriers to breast cancer early detection.
Institute of the Americas. Program to train health and science reporters from Latin
America. Boston via teleconference. November 1.
Presentation: “Latin American Women in Transition. Breast Cancer:
Opportunities for Action.”
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Harvard University Course: Societies of the World 25: Health, Culture and
Community: Case studies in Global Health. Professor: Paul Farmer. November 9.
Presentation: “Breast Cancer: Unforeseen Public Health Priority in Developing
Countries.”
First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. Montreux, Switzerland.
November 15-19.
Organizer: IDRC Governance, Equity and Health - Meeting of regional health
equity and financing networks. November 15.
Panel Presentation: Cross regional comparative assessment of equity in health
financing: update of empirical findings from EQUITAP, SHIELD and the Latin
America Health Observatory. “Health financing and social protection in
Latin America and the Caribbean.” November 16.
Panel Presentation: Depth versus breadth of coverage: The tradeoff between
unlimited services for some people versus limited packages for all. “A dynamic
diagonal approach to universal health coverage: Mexico´s Seguro Popular steps in
the right direction; the example of breast cancer.” November 17.
Panel Presentation: "Cancer and Health System Strengthening: An Example of
the Diagonal Approach." November 17.
Health Promoter Training Workshop of the Ministry of Health of the State of Nuevo
León and the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico. Monterrey, Nuevo León,
Mexico. December 2.
Personal testimony and training in barriers to breast cancer early detection.
Joint Faculty Meeting. Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Division of
Global Health Equity. Boston, Massachusetts. December 8.
Presentation: “Introduction to the GTF.CCC.”
YEAR 2011
Management Sciences for Health Brown Bag Lunch. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
January 24.
Presentation: “Cancer: Unforeseen Public Health Priority in Developing
Countries.”
Hospital Infantil y de la Mujer del Estado de Sonora. Hermosillo, Sonora. Mexico.
February 22.
Presentation: Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en México.
Hospital General de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora. Mexico. February 22,
Presentation: Personal testimony. Book presentation: “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
Instituto Nacional de Cancerología. DF, Mexico. February 28.
Conference: Personal testimony. Book presentation: “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
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14 Congreso de Investigación en Salud Pública. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública,
Cuernavaca, Morelos. Mexico March 1:
1) Mesa temática: Respuesta social ante la epidemia del cáncer de mama en
México. Presentation: Cáncer de mama en México: retos y oportunidades
2) Participación en el Foro de discussion “Tamizaje de cáncer de mama en
México: ¿a qué edad es recomendable iniciar?”
3) Presentación de la edición especial del libro Tómatelo a pecho. Autoría:
Felicia Knaul
The Long Tail of Global Health Equity: Tackling the Endemic Non-communicable
Diseases of the Bottom Billion. Boston, Massachusetts. March 3.
Moderator: “Global Solidarity 2.”
Presentation: “Global Health Governance and Financing for NCDs of the
Poorest: Lessons from Expanding Access to Cancer Care and Control in LMICs”
The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health. The Andelot Series on Current
Science Controversies. Boston, MA. March 8.
Panel Participation (webcast): “Mammograms: Who in the world are they good
for?”
Integrating Cancer Care and Control with Women and Health: Identifying Platforms,
Synergies and Opportunities for Action. Boston, MA. March 10-11.
Chief Organizer of Consultation.
Presentation: “Integrating Cancer Care and Control with Women and Health:
Identifying Platforms, Synergies and Opportunities for Action.” March 10.
Global Health Metrics and Evaluation Conference. Seattle, Washington. March 14.
Presentation: “Noncommunicable Disease Transitions: Rich and poor countries.”
PATH. Brown Bag Lunch Series. Seattle, Washington. March 15.
Presentation: “Breast cancer: unforeseen health priority in developing
countries.”
Global Health and Cancer: a Seattle Perspective. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center. Seattle, Washington. March 14.
Presentation: “Global Health and Cancer: Evidence-based Advocacy.”
Global Health and the Arts. Yale University and Longwharf Arts Center. April 1.
Panel participation: Patient Advocacy and Access
Presentation: “Closing the Global Cancer Divide”
Global Health Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Advancing Excellence and
Equity. Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA. April 4.
Plenary participation: “Framing Priorities in Global Health”
Women’s Cancer Summit in Rwanda. April 29.
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Presentation (by video conference): Meeting the Challenges of Breast Cancer in
Rwanda: Applying Global Lessons
Women's Cancer Conference: Policy and Strategic Actions. Sheikh Mohammed
Hussein Al-Amoudi Center of Excellence in Breast Cancer. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
May 4.
Presentation (by video conference): "Why Link Early Detection to
Reproductive Health Interventions in Developing Countries?"
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. June 4.
Presentation: “Overview of the GTF.CCC and High-level Meeting of the UN
General Assembly on Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Control.”
Global Health Council Conference: Securing a Healthier Future in a Changing World.
Washington, D.C. June 13-17.
Conference Co-chair.
Presentation: “Restructuring Health Systems in the Face of Chronicity: The
Diagonal Optimalist Approach.” June 14.
Presentation: “Global Inequities, Children & NCDs – What Can We Learn from
Childhood Cancer?” June 14.
Panel Presentation: “Opportunities to Harness Platforms and Apply the
Diagonal Approach: Lessons from Cancer.” June 14.
Panel Participation: Harnessing the NCD Social Movement, Now and Beyond
the UN Summit: The NCD Alliance Perspective. June 15.
Session Organizer and Speaker: Closing the Cancer Divide: Lessons for NCDs
and Chronic Illnesses. June 15.
Session Organizer and Speaker: Integrating Cancer, Other NCDs, and Chronic
Illnesses into Women and Health Platforms. June 17.
Presentation: “A Patient/Practitioner Perspective on the High-level Meeting on
NCDs.” June 17.
We Can, We Should and We Will Conquer Cancer. American Cancer Society. New
York, NY. June 20.
Presentation: “Health System Strengthening.”
iHEA 8 th World Congress. Toronto, Canada. July 13.
Presentation: Coverage and financial protection of cancer in Mexico: Seguro
Popular.”
Presentation: "Depth of Financial Risk Protection in Latin American Health
Systems and the Role of Health Systems Design.”
Diplomate of Global Health. Course Social Determinants of Health, National Public
Health Institute (Mexico), July 21.
Presentation:“Determinantes Sociales del cáncer de mama en México.”
Presentation: “La brecha Mundial del Cáncer: Un imperativo de equidad.”
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Training course for doctors and nurses from primary care “Salud mamaria, detección y
atención del cáncer de mama”. Guadalajara. Jalisco. Mexico. July 25.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en México.”
Presentation to the special issue of the review Salud Pública de México: “Atlas de los
Sistemas de Salud de América Latina”. National Public Health Institute (Mexico),
August 2.
Commentator.
Second course: Salud mamaria, detección y atención del cáncer de mama. Guadalajara,
Jalisco, Mexico. August 15
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en México.”
Seminar: Age of onset of breast cancer in Latin America and the Caribbean: A
multidisciplinary approach to understanding determinants and health policy
implications. Organizer and moderator of the First Meeting of Researchers.
Cuernavaca, Morelos. Mexico. August 18-19
Presentation: Implications of the age of onset for public policy making in
LMICs: short, medium and long run. Overview.
Presentation: Breast cancer onset age: distribution in developing countries.
Global and regional patterns of age at onset and mortality.
Presentation: Trends and analysis of risk factors. Education and female labor
force participation.
Cancer Detection and Diagnostics Technologies for Global Health Meeting. National
Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Washington, DC. August 22-23
Presentation: “Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative.”
2011-2012 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Global Action on Non-communicable
Diseases: the UN Summit and Beyond. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
September 27
Commentator on Keynote presentation given by Dr.Srinath Reddy.
Tumor Board Special Presentation. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Boston,
MA. October 5
Presentation: “The Challenge of Breast Cancer in Developing Countries:
Innovative Solutions for Closing the Cancer Divide.”
Capital Breast Care Center “5th Annual Gift of Life Breakfast”.Washington, DC.
October 13
Presentation: “From Anecdote to Evidence: a personal testimony.”
2011 Breast Cancer Global Congress. A partnership of the Department of State and the
Avon Foundation for Women. Washington, DC. October 13
Presentation: “Breast cancer in LMICs: Meeting the challenge.”
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International Seminar "Seguro Popular y Cáncer de Mama. Inclusión e Innovación”.
National Commission on Social Health Protection (Mexico), Mexico. October 18
1) Opening Remarks
2) Presentation: “Innovaciones en el Financiamiento de los servicios: Análisis
comparativo a nivel mundial en la cobertura del cáncer de mama.”
3) Presentation: Conclusion and Reflections on the 2011 United Nations High
Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable
Diseases. Conclusiones y Reflexiones sobre la Reunión Anual 2011 de la
Asamblea General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas
Ceremonia Conmemorativa al Día Internacional del Cáncer de Mama. Alcazar del
Castillo de Chapultepec. Mexico City, Mexico. October 18
Conference: Personal testimony “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
VIII Congreso Nacional de Mastología y V Reunión Internacional Cáncer Mamario
para Todos: un Enfoque Multitudinario". Mexico, October 19
Presentation: “Perspectivas del cáncer en México y a nivel mundial.”
GTF.CCC Symposium: Closing the Cancer Divide: The Global Equity Imperative of
Expanding Access in Low and Middle Income Countries. Global Task Force on
Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries, Boston, MA.
October 28
Symposium Organizer
1) Presentation: “The Global Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative.”
2) Presentation: “Innovative Financing: Local and Global Opportunities.”
3) Presentation: “A Report of the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to
Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries.”
2011 Global Health Conference, Advancing health equity in the 21st Century.
Montreal, Canada. November 14th.
Presentation: “Closing the Cancer Divide: Equity Imperative and Opportunity
for Global Health”.
World Cancer Leaders Summit, Union for International Cancer Control. Dublin,
Ireland. November 18
Presentation: “Closing the Cancer Divide: a Blueprint to Expand Access in Low
and Middle Income Countries. A report of the GTF.CCC. Overview.”
Seminar “Miradas multidisciplinarias sobre el cáncer de mama en México: resultados
de investigación y políticas públicas”. El Colegio de México. Mexico, November 18
Presentation: “Perspectivas del cáncer en México y a nivel mundial.”
Course: Salud mamaria, detección y atención del cáncer de mama. Guadalajara,
Jalisco, Mexico. November 25
Presentation (for webex): “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud
en México.”
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2011 International Diabetes Federation Congress. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
December 5.
Presentation: “Expanding access to cancer care and control in LMIc: Lessons
for health systems.”
Seminar “Women's Cancers: A Life Course Approach”. World Health Organization.
Geneva, Switzerland. December 7.
Presentation: “Closing the cancer divide: an equity imperative for women and
health.”
Launch of the Report of the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care
and Control in Developing Countries. Closing the cancer divide: a blueprint to expand
access in low and middle income countries. London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine. London, December 8.
1) Presentation: “Closing the cancer divide: a new frontier for global health”
2) Panel discussion
Conference “The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health: 10 Years On”.
Chatham House. London, December 9.
Panelist in Session 4. Where Do We Go from Here? Priorities for the Next
Decade.
YEAR 2012
Course for medical interns: “Salud mamaria, detección y atención del cáncer de
mama”. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. January 30.
Presentation (via skype): “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la
salud en México.”
Conference “Detección oportuna del cáncer de mama: Una tarea de todos”. Centro de
Innovación y Educación, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. February 2.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en
México.”
Movement Against Cancer Forum, Moscow, Russia. February 2.
Presentation (video): “Expanding Access to Cancer Care and Control: A global
challenge.”
World Cancer Day. National Cancer Institute of Mexico, México, DF. February 7.
Presentation: “Cerrando la brecha del cáncer: Reporte de la Comisión Global
para Ampliar el Acceso a la Atención y Control del Cáncer en Países en
Desarrollo.”
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Harvard School of Public Health Course GHP231: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Professor: Ana Langer. February 14.
Lecture: “Breast Cancer in LMICs: Meeting the Challenge of Closing the Cancer
Divide.”
XIV Congreso Internacional Avances en Medicina, Hospital Civil 2012, Módulo de
Enfermería: El cáncer de mama en un contexto biopsico-social. Guadalajara, Jalisco,
Mexico. February 23.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en México.”
Course for doctors and nurses from primary care: Salud mamaria, detección y atención
del cáncer de mama. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. February 23.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en
México.”
Conference and dialogue: Detección Oportuna de Cáncer en la Mujer. National Public
Health Institute of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. February 28.
Presentation: “Testimonio personal: Tómatelo a Pecho.”
Meeting of the Consejo Promotor Competitividad y Salud. Funsalud. Mexico City.
February 29.
Presentation: Competitividad y Salud: Informe de avances 2011 y plan de
trabajo 2012.
Course for doctors and nurses from primary care: Salud mamaria, detección y atención
del cáncer de mama. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. March 1.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en
México.”
New England Roentgen Ray Society, Annual Refresher Course Breast Imaging.
Massachusetts, USA. March 3.
Presentation: “Breast Cancer: An Unforeseen Public Health Priority in Low and
Middle Income Countries.”
NCD Child Conference. Oakland, CA, March 21.
Presentation: “Case study: Strategy in action; Mexico, Universal health
coverage; and What’s posible!”
Phamaceutical Policy Research Seminar, Department of Population Medicine,
Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA, March 28.
Presentation: “Challenges and Opportunities for Cancer Care and Control in the
Developing World.”
Training for early detection of breast cancer. . Secretaría de Salud y Sistema para el
Desarrollo Integral de la Familia. Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, April 18.
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1) Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en
México.”
2) Conference: Personal testimony “Tómatelo a Pecho”.
Course for doctors and nurses from primary care: Salud mamaria, detección y atención
del cáncer de mama. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, May 9.
Presentation (via webex): “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la
salud en México.”
Annual Fulbright Enrichment Seminar: From Lab to Market. US Department of State,
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Institute of International Education.
Boston, MA, May 16.
Presentation: “Closing the cancer divide: a new frontier for global health.”
Pfizer Grand Rounds: “Closing the Cancer Divide: Strategies for Action.” Pfizer
Headquarters. New York, May 17.
Presentation: “Closing the cancer divide: Strategies for action.”
Global Health and the Arts 2012: Understanding and Tackling Mental Illness in the
21 st Century. New Haven, Connecticut, May 18.
Panel: “Global challenge of mental illness”
Lincoln’s Breast Center Conference: “Closing the Gap: Addressing the Disparities in
Breast Cancer.” Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, New York, June 7, 2012.
Presentation: “Breast Cancer: Global Disparities.”
Third Technical Meeting of the Advisory Group on increasing Access to Radiotherapy
Technology in Low and Middle Income Countries (AGaRT), International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA). Vienna, Austria, June 22.
Presentation: Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and
Control in Developing Countries: Closing the Cancer Divide
Presentation of GTF.CCC Report at International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Lyon, France, July 2.
Presentation: Closing the Cancer Divide: A Blueprint for Action
Princess Margaret Hospital Summer Rounds Series, Toronto, July 19 th .
Presentation: Closing the Cancer Divide: Opportunities for expanding cancer
care and control in LMICs
6 th Inter-American Breast Cancer Conference, Cancun, Mexico, July 26 th .
Presentation: Tómatelo a Pecho (Take it to Heart)
Summer Course in Public Health and Epidemiology, Instituto Nacional de Salud
Pública. Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, August 6.
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Presentation: Keynote Speaker “Cerrando la Brecha del Cáncer: Oportunidades
para Ampliar la Atención y Control del Cáncer en Países en Desarrollo”.
Forum “Economía, Protección Social Universal y Salud: La Siguiente Fase de la
Reforma en México”. México, D.F. August 20.
Forum Organizer.
Presentation: “México en THE LANCET. Proyección internacional de la
experiencia mexicana de reforma en salud”.
Technical Meeting of the Sub-Committee on Women's Cancer. Monterrey, Nuevo
León. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, August 22.
Presentation: “Cerrando la Brecha del Cáncer: Oportunidades para Ampliar la
Atención y Control del Cáncer en Países en Desarrollo”.
Course for doctors and nurses from primary care: Salud mamaria, detección y atención
del cáncer de mama. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, August 22.
Presentation: “Cáncer de mama: prioridad apremiante para la salud en
México.”
Union for International Cancer Control World Cancer Leaders’ Summit 2012.
Montreal, Canada, August 27 th .
Panel Moderator: “The Economic Case for Action: Maximizing impact and
measuring effectiveness.”
Union for International Cancer Control World Cancer Congress 2012, Montreal,
Canada, August 27-30.
Session Organizer: “Closing the cancer divide: Harnessing health systems”
Presentation: “The diagonal approach to health systems strengthening: a
roadmap for expanding access in LMICs.”
Presentation: “Success in development- bringing the health systems
strengthening message to life.”
Presentation: “The need for knowledge: How does misinformation about cancer
affect a country’s health system.”
GTF.CCC Private Sector Engagement Meeting. Harvard Faculty Club Cambridge,
MA, September 5.
Presentation: “Enhancing Private Sector Engagement to Expand Access to
Cancer Care and Control in Low and Middle Income Countries.
Book launch: Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative. Harvard School of
Public Health, Boston, MA, September 11.
Presentation: Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative.
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Global Summit on International Breast Health: Guidelines for International Breast
Health and Cancer Control – Supportive Care and Quality of Life. Vienna, October 4.
Presentation: “Barriers to Financing and Delivery of Therapy”
International Seminar “Towards a Universal Health System in Mexico.” Mexico City,
October 8.
Forum Organizer.
Presentation: “Hacia la cobertura universal en salud: protección social para
todos en México.”
International Seminar “Salud global, mujer y cáncer de mama”. National Cancer
Institute of Mexico. Mexico City, October 10.
Forum Organizer.
Presentation: “Salud global, mujer y cáncer de mama.”
Gannett Healthcare Group Live Webinar, October 15.
Webinar presentation: "The Worldwide Fight Against Breast Cancer.”
Washington Post Live Forum: The Check-Up: Non-Communicable Diseases.
Washington, DC, October 17.
Forum participant
Book launch: Beauty without the Breast. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,
MA. October 22.
Presentation: "Beauty without the Breast."
Book launch: Closing the Cancer Divide. London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, UK. October 24.
Presentation: "Closing the cancer divide: From evidence to action."
Co-Presentation with Rifat Atun: “Health system responses: Diagonal
approach.”
Seminar and book launch: Cancer in low and middle income countries. Bridging the
cancer divide: an equity imperative. Imperial College London, UK. October 25.
Presentation: “Bridging the cancer divide: the diagonal approach.”
World Oncology Forum. Are we winning the war on cancer? Lugano, Switzerland,
October 26.
Presentation: “Overcoming the divide.”
World Health Organisation Consultation on Women’s Cancer Across the Life-course.
WHO Headquarters, Geneva, October 29.
Presentation: “Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cncer Care and
Control in Developing Countries.”
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Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Beijing, China. October 31-
November 5.
Session: The quest for universal effective coverage and social protection for
health: Examples from the LAC region.
Presentation: The quest for universal health coverage: A system of social
protection for all in Mexico. November 1.
Session: Priority-setting institutions in health: Supporting global and domestic
HTA systems.
Presentation: Setting priorities in Mexico: the Seguro Popular package
CAUSES. November 2.
Session: Conceptualizing and measuring progress towards universal coverage: A
Perspective from researchers at a national and regional level.
Presentation: The quest for universal effective coverage: Application to the
LAC region. November 2.
Toronto Cancer Conference 2012, Toronto, November 22.
Presentation: "Beauty without the Breast."
Book launch & interview: “Beauty without the Breast: A Personal Testimony by a
Global Health Expert on Life with Cancer in a Developing Country.” London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, December 5.
Harvard School of Public Health Study Tour Organized for the Delegation Led by the
All China Women’s Federation. Harvard School of Public Health, December 14.
Presentation: Major Experiences with Breast Cancer Control in Mexico.
Conferencia “Regálate vida, detecta el cáncer a tiempo…” Teatro Ocampo,
Cuernavaca, Mexico, December 21.
Presentation: Testimonio de vida “Tómatelo a Pecho.”
FUNDED RESEARCH (selection of recent projects as PI):
Avon México.
“Estudio sobre el sistema de información y registro del cáncer del estado de
Jalisco, México” (2012) (US $31,600).
GDS Services International Limited.
“Expanding Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries. A
proposal to build national capacity and cross-country learning. Based on the
experience and links to the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer
Care and Control in Developing Countries (GTF.CCC).” (2012-2013) (US
$162,725).
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IDRC, Canada (International Development Research Centre) (to the Mexican
Health Foundation).
Research, capacity building and policy response for greater equity in health and
health financing: Building and strengthening developing country networks.
Coordinator of project and director of the LAC component involving research
networks from Asia and Africa. 36 month project beginning in May 2011. (US
$1’627,640).
GlaxoSmithKline Oncology Ethnic Research Initiative (GSK ERI).
“Age of onset of breast cancer in Latin America and the Caribbean: a
multidisciplinary approach to understanding determinants and health policy
implications”. Co-PI with dr. Lizbeth López, National Institute of Public Health
of Mexico. (2011-2012) (US $249,863)
Avon México.
“Capacitación a medicos y/o enfermeras del primer y segundo nivel de atención
para la detección y diagnóstico oportuno del Cáncer de Mama” (2011) (US
$44,000)
Lance Armstrong Foundation (to the Harvard Global Equity Initiative)
“Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control- analysis
of pricing and procurement of cancer drugs and services” (2010-2011)
(US$210,000)
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (to the Harvard Global
Equity Initiative)
“Managing HIV/AIDS as a chronic illness and its relations to cancer,
implications for health systems” (2010-2011) (US$263,000)
The World Bank (to the Harvard Global Equity Initiative) “Health system
strengthening and Sexual Reproductive Health” (2010) (US$130,000)
IDRC, Canada (International Development Research Centre) (to the Mexican
Health Foundation)
The Impact of Health Financing and Household Health Spending on Financial
Equity and Impoverishment: a Comparative Analysis of Seven Countries in LA
(Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru). Coordinator and
director of the study involving 7 research institutions in LA and the Health
Financing Task Force. 36 month project begun in July 2007. (US $1’100,000).
Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud, México. (to the Mexican Health Foundation)
1) Investigación sobre Cáncer de Mama. (2008-2010). (US $200,000;
150,000; 100,000 by year).
2) Observatorio de la Salud: Iniciativa para América Latina y el Caribe.
(2007- present). (US $0.8-1.5 million per year).
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (to the Mexican Health Foundation)
“Study of Models of Collaborating Centers in Developing Countries for the
Health Metrics and Evaluation Institute.” (2007-2008) (US $750,000).
Interamerican Development Bank / Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público,
México.
“Análisis de Costos y Beneficios de Extender la Cobertura del Seguro Médico de
Jubilados Estadounidenses Residentes en México”. (2007-2008) (US $70,000)
Rockefeller Foundation (to the Mexican Health Foundation)
Policy Analysis of the Progresa/Oportunidades Program in Mexico for the City of
New York (2007) (US $190,000)
Coordination, Write-Up, And Documentation Of The Health Financing Task
Force (HFTF) – Mexican Health Foundation (Funsalud) Planning Consultations
On “Globalizing Information On Lessons-Learned From Country Experiences
With Health Financing And Reform” (2006-2007) (US $50,000).
CONACYT, Mexico (National Council for Science and Technology) (to the
Mexican Health Foundation)
1) La carga del cancer mamario en México y su impacto económico y
social (2008-2010) (US $105,000)
2) El sistema de salud en México ante los desafíos demográficos,
epidemiológicos, sociales y económicos en los próximos 50 años
(2005-2008) (US $153,000)
3) Gasto catastrófico en salud y pérdidas de ingreso laboral por
enfermedad: lecciones para la eficiencia y la justicia del
financiamiento de la salud. (2001-2004) (US $119,000)
Banco Mundial
Risk Pooling, Saving and Prevention: A Regional Study of Policies and
Institutions that Protect the Poor from Health Shocks; studio de México (2005).
(US $15,000).
NIA- UPENN (National Institute of Aging- University of Pennsylvania) (to the
Mexican Health Foundation)
Health Spending, Health System Finance, and Health Sector Reform in the
Context of Demographic and Epidemiological Transition: the Mexico Case.
(2004-2005) (US $75,000)
WHO, Geneva (World Health Organization) (to the Mexican Health Foundation)
Health System Financing, Expenditure and Resource Allocation (2004-2006).
(various grants totaling US $160,000)
CONSALUD, Mexico (Consejo Promotor Competitividad y Salud) (2003-
present) (to the Mexican Health Foundation)
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Proyecto Competitividad y Salud (between US $100,000 and $350,000 per year)
Alliance for Health Policy and System Research (to the Mexican Health
Foundation)
Health expenditure, fairness in financial contributions and protection from
impoverishing expenditure: implications of extending universal health insurance
coverage in Mexico. (2002-2003) (US $19,000)
TRAINING AND WORK WITH STUDENTS (selection of thesis projects and
internships):
Master’s Degree, Miranda Muñoz Martha, 1997. “Una Estimación de la Demanda
de Salud a partir de la regresión Poisson”. Centro de Investigación y Docencia
Económica, A. C. División de Economía, in Mexico.
Bachelors Degree, Ana Mylena Aguilar Rivera, 1999. “La Feminización de la
Profesión Médica y sus Implicaciones en la Oferta y Productividad”. Centro de
Investigación y Docencia Económica AC. División de Economía, in Mexico.
Master’s Degree, Sergio Sesma, 2000. “El precio como Determinante del
Consumo del tabaco en México: 1992-1996”, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública-
Centro de Investigación en Sistemas de Salud, Mexico.
Master’s Degree, Arreola Ornelas Héctor, 2000. “Los Efectos de las Inversiones
en Épocas Tempranas de la Vida en Salud y Nutrición de las Mujeres Mexicanas
sobre su Oferta Laboral: Un Modelo Econométrico”. Centro de Investigación y
Docencia Económica, A. C. División de Economía, in Mexico.
Bachelor’s Degree, Torres Ana Cristina. 2002. “Los Determinantes del Gasto de
Bolsillo en Salud y su Impacto sobre el Empobrecimiento de los Hogares
Mexicanos: Análisis para 1994, 1996 y 1998”. Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo
de México. División Académica de Economía, in Mexico.
Master’s Degree, Ramírez, Miguel Ángel, 2005. “Impacto de las Personas de la
Tercera Edad sobre la Participación Laboral de la Mujer”. Centro de Investigación
y Docencia Económica, A.C. División de Economía, in Mexico.
Licenciatura, Alejandra Martínez Elizondo, 2005. “Análisis de la Inclusión de la
Variable de Salud en los Indicadores de Competitividad Global para el Caso de
México.” Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México. División Académica de
Economía, México.
Bachelor’s Degree, Ana Sofía León, 2005. “El Efecto de la desigualdad de la
distribución del Ingreso sobre el cambio en las preferencias políticas en México”.
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Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México- Departamento de Economía, in
Mexico.
PhD, Miranda Muñoz Martha. “Pensions Retirement And Welfare In México”,
Universidad De Essex- Departamento de Economía, en Inglaterra. Degree granted
in 2006.
Licenciatura. Julio Antonio Rosado Bautista. “La política social en México: la
institucionalización de una cultura de la evaluación.” Instituto Tecnológico
Autónomo de México. 2008.
BA. Christian Norton Ayora. “El impacto de las remesas sobre el Gasto
Catastrófico en México: Una propuesta de política pública para la protección
financiera de las familias receptoras de remesas”. Instituto Tecnológico
Autónomo de México. 2008.
PhD, Luz María González Robledo. “Contratación de prestadores privados para
ampliar la cobertura de poblaciones pobres en México. El caso del estado de
Jalisco.” Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Degree granted in 2008.
Masters in Health Systems, Rolando Espinosa Morales, 2009. “Patrón de
utilización de servicios de salud y costo en pacientes con síntomas
musculoesqueléticos: Un estudio en población mexicana”. Instituto Nacional de
Salud Pública, in Mexico.
PhD, María Cecilia González Robledo, 2011 “Transición Epidemiológica:
Desafíos para el financiamiento y los recursos humanos de la salud: el caso del
Cáncer de Mama”, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México.
PhD, Débora Schlam Epelstein, 2012. “La administración pública de la salud:
costo-beneficio de la promoción de la salud en la tercera edad. El caso de la
osteoporosis.”, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Administración.
BA. Liv Lafontaine Navarro, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. In
process.
Internship, Fabrizzio Almazán Casali, Junio – Octubre 2005. Instituto
Tecnológico de Monterrey, México.
Internship, Bronwyn Isabelle Underhill, December 2005- June 2006. University
of Toronto, Canada.
Internship, Nelly Nieblas, June-August 2006. John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, USA.
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Internship, Kyle Rattray, June-August 2006. Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA.
Internship, Maja Pleic, June 2006-June 2007. University of Toronto, Canada.
Internship. Rashida Nek. Massachussetts Institute of Technology. USA. 2007.
Post-doctoral Fellow. Harvard Medical School. Harvard Global Equity Initiative.
Yelena Wetherhill. Spring 2010.
Post-doctoral Fellow. Harvard Medical School. Harvard Global Equity Initiative.
Aparna Raj. Completed. Spring 2010.
Internship at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative and Mexican Health
Foundation. June-Ho Kim. Summer 2011.
Internship at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. Pinal Patel. Summer 2011.
Internship at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. Katie Stout. Harvard Medical
School. Fall 2011.
Internship at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. Evelien Sandberg. Harvard
Medical School. Winter- Spring 2012.
Internship at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. Alice Carter. Harvard Medical
School. Summer 2012.
Internship at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. Imara Roychowdhury. Harvard
Medical School. Summer 2012.
Internship at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. Hayley Daniell. Harvard
Medical School. Fall 2012- present.
Internship at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. Toni Kuguru. Harvard Medical
School. Winter 2013.
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