Julio Frenk

Julio José Frenk Mora (born December 20, 1953) is a Mexican physician and sociologist who served the sixth president of the University of Miami from 2015 to 2024.

After receiving an undergraduate medical degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1979, he attended the University of Michigan and graduated with two master's degrees and a PhD degree in 1983. After that, he became a public servant at the Ministry of Health of Mexico and served as Secretary of Health of Mexico from 2002 to 2006. He served as dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2009 to 2015.

From 2019 to 2024, he served as the sixth president of the University of Miami, where he also served as a professor of public health science at the Miller School of Medicine, a professor of health sector management at Herbert Business School, and a professor of sociology at the College of Arts and Sciences.

On June 12, 2024, the University of California, Los Angeles announced that, effective January 1, 2025, Frenk would become the 7th chancellor of the university. The same day, the University of Miami simultaneously announced Frenk was being replaced "effective immediately" by the university's chief executive officer, Joe Echevarria, who became acting president of the university. Provided by Wikipedia