Felicia Knaul

Dr. Felicia Marie Knaul has spent 30 years focusing on global health and social development. From 2009 to 2015, she was an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. At the University of Miami, she was director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and is a professor at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. She is also the secretary general of the Hemispheric University Consortium and an associate of the chancellor at UCLA as of December 2024. In Mexico, she is a senior economist at the Mexican Health Foundation and an Honorary Research Professor of Medical Sciences at the National Institute of Public Health.

Her research focuses on global health, violence against women and children, cancer (particularly breast cancer), health systems reform, and health financing. She is a member of the Mexican National Academy of Medicine, and in 2018, she became a Level III researcher at the National System of Researchers (SNI) in Mexico. After her breast cancer experience, Dr. Knaul founded Tómatelo a Pecho, A.C. in 2008, a Mexican non-profit focused on breast cancer research and early detection awareness.

Dr. Knaul has produced over 350 academic and policy publications. She currently co-chairs commissions such as The Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems. She also serves as commissioner of The Lancet Oncology Commission on Cancer in the Commonwealth, among others. She was honored by being inducted into the International Women’s Forum in 2024.

Felicia Knaul joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Public Health for the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

• Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University
• M.A., Economics, Harvard University
• B.A., International Development Studies, University of Toronto

• Jamison DT, Summers LH, Chang A, Karlsson O, Mao W, Norheim O, Ogbuoji O, Schäferhoff M, Watkins D, OAdeyi O, Alleyne G, Alwan S, Anand S, Belachew R, Berkley S, Bertozzi S, Bolongaita S, Bundy D, Bustreo F, Castro M, Chen S, Fan V, Fawole A, Feachem R, Gebremedhin L, Ghosh J, Goldie S, Gonzalez-Pier E, Guo Y, Gupta S, Jha P, Knaul FM, Kruk M, Kurowski C, Liu G, Makimoto S, Mataria A, Nugent N, Oshitani H, Pablos-Mendez A, Peto R, Sekhri Feachem N, Reddy S, Salti N, Saxenian H, Seyi-Olajide J, Soucat A, Verguet S, Zimmerman A, Yamey G. Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century. The Lancet, Volume 404, Issue 10462 p1561-1614. October 19, 2024. DOI: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2824%2901439-9
• Coles CE, Earl H, Anderson BO, Barrios CH, Bienz M, Bliss JM, Cameron D, Cardoso F, Cui W, Francis PA, Jagsi, R, Knaul FM, McIntosh S, Phillips KA, Radbruch L, Thompson MK, André F, Abraham JE, Bhattacharya I, Borinelli Franzoi MA, Drewett L, Fulton A, Kazmi F, Rajah DI, Mutebi M, Ng D, Szeyi Ng, Olopade OI,  Rosa WE, Rubasingham J, Spence D, Stobart H, Vargas Enciso V, Vaz Luis I, Villarreal-Garza C on behalf of the Lancet Breast Cancer Commission. The Lancet Breast Cancer Commission Report. The Lancet. April 15, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00747-5
• Knaul, F., Arreola-Ornelas, H., Jiang, X., Bhadelia, A., Berterame, S., Connor, S., De Lima, L., Downing, J., Krakauer, E., Méndez, O., Pastrana, T., Perez-Cruz, P. E., Portenoy, R., Rosa, W., Touchton, M., Enciso, V., & Radbruch, L. (2024). Distributed opioids in morphine equivalent: A global measure of availability for palliative care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.10.026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.10.026
• Knaul, Felicia & Rosa, William & Radbruch, Lukas & Jiang, Xiaoxiao & Vargas, Valentina & Bhadelia, Afsan & Arreola-Ornelas, Héctor & Coppola, Marissa. (2024). Improving access to palliative care to mitigate multi-dimensional breast cancer suffering. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42. e24084-e24084. 10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.e24084.
• Frenk, J., Gómez-Dantés, O., Knaul, F. M., & Arreola-Ornelas, H. (2020). Salud: Focos rojos. Retroceso en tiempos de la pandemia. Peguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A. de C.V. Editorial Debate.

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