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| WEDNESDAY, 17 NOVEMBER |
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Session Start/End Time: 08:30 - 09:00 |
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| Health systems research for the 21st century: the power of knowledge in an interdependent world |
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Keynote speaker: Julio Frenk |
ON-DEMAND WEBCAST AND PRESENTATION |
 D0WNLOAD SPEECH |
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| Since January 2009, Dr. Julio Frenk is Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, a joint appointment between the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and HSPH. Dr. Frenk served as the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, where he introduced universal health insurance. He has also held leadership positions at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, the Mexican Health Foundation, the World Health Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Carso Health Institute. In September of 2008, Dr. Frenk received the Clinton Global Citizen Award for changing “the way practitioners and policy makers across the world think about health.†|
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