| Jesús Kumate Rodríguez | |
| Secretary of Health | |
| Term Start: | 1 December 1988 |
| Term End: | 30 November 1994 |
| President: | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Predecessor: | Guillermo Soberón Acevedo |
| Successor: | Juan Ramón de la Fuente |
| Birth Date: | 12 November 1924 |
| Birth Place: | Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Death Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Alma Mater: | Escuela Médico Militar Instituto Politécnico Nacional |
| Profession: | Physician |
| Spouse: | Bertha Guerra Rovelo |
Jesús Kumate Rodríguez (13 November 1924 - 7 May 2018) was a Mexican physician and politician. He served as the Secretary of Health during the presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Kumate Rodríguez was born in Mazatlán in 1924 to a Japanese emigrant father and a Sinaloense mother who worked as a rural teacher.[2] He graduated as a surgeon in 1946 from the Escuela Médico Militar and became a Doctor of Science at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in 1963.[3]
During his tenure as Secretary of Health, Kumate Rodríguez oversaw the implementation of universal vaccination,[4] the eradication of poliomyelitis, the combat against a cholera outbreak, the updating of epidemiological surveillance and the drastic decrease of infant mortality.