José Narro Robles Explained

José Narro Robles
Birth Date:5 December 1948
Office1:Secretary of Health
Term Start1:8 February 2016
Term End1:30 November 2018
President1:Enrique Peña Nieto
Predecessor1:Mercedes Juan López
Successor1:Jorge Alcocer Varela
Title2:Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Term Start2:17 November 2007
Term End2:16 November 2015
Predecessor2:Juan Ramón de la Fuente
Successor2:Enrique Graue Wiechers
Birth Place:Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
Residence:Mexico City
Alma Mater:National Autonomous University of Mexico (MD)
University of Birmingham (MPH)
Known For:Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Party:Independent (since 2019)
Otherparty:Institutional Revolutionary Party (1973-2019)

José Narro Robles (born December 5, 1948, in Saltillo, Coahuila) is a Mexican physician, researcher, academic, and politician. He is a former director of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and was elected its 23rd Rector on November 20, 2007.[1] After two 4-year periods leading UNAM, in February 2016, he was appointed by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to replace Mercedes Juan as head of the Mexican Secretariat of Health.[2]

Robles has enacted as adviser for the World Health Organization, WHO and UNICEF. He has been president of the National Academy of Medicine, of which he has been a member since 1992. He has also worked as General Director of Health Services of the Mexican Federal District, Secretary-General of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Undersecretary of Migratory Services and Population at the Ministry of the Interior (Secretaría de Gobernación) and Undersecretary of Health at the Federal Secretariat of Health.[3] He holds a number of honorary doctorates from Latin American and European universities.

Honorary doctorates

Notes and References

  1. Web site: La Jornada . 2007-11-13 . José Narro Robles; la UNAM tiene nuevo rector . es . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071115150206/http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2007/11/13/designan-a-jose-narro-robles-nuevo-rector-de-la-unam . 2007-11-15 .
  2. News: Animal Político. 2016-02-08. 2016-02-08. Cambios en el gabinete de Peña: Nuevos titulares de Pemex, IMSS y la Secretaría de Salud. es.
  3. Web site: El Universal . Semblanza: José Narro Robles. 2007-11-13. es.
  4. Gaceta UNAM . Gaceta Unam. Agenda. . 2012 . 4 476 . 0188-5138 . . Gaceta UNAM, 6 de diciembre de 2012, página 7, cita a Cristóbal López.
  5. News: Doctorado Honoris Causa, Santiago de Chile . 2017-07-04 . El Economista . es .
  6. Desplegado Oficial Universidad de la Habana, Cuba .
  7. Gaceta UNAM . Gaceta Unam. Agenda. . 2011 . 4 320 . 0188-5138 .
  8. Discurso Salamanca, Doctorado Honoris Causa . 2016 .
  9. Doctorado Honoris Causa, Universidad de Campeche . 2015 . 2017-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171020190956/http://www.gaceta.unam.mx/20150622/doctorado-honoris-causa-de-la-uac-a-jose-narro/ . 2017-10-20 . dead .
  10. Web site: Reconoce UANL a intelectuales, educadores y humanistas . es . Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León . 2016-09-14 . Blanca . Medina . Gisel . Cantú . Francisco . Gámez . Eduardo . Loredo . 2017-10-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20170417154632/http://www.uanl.mx/noticias/institucional/reconoce-uanl-intelectuales-educadores-y-humanistas.html. 2017-04-17. dead.