1. Felicia Marie Knaul was born on April 24,1966 and is a British-Canadian health economist who is director of the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and a professor at the Miller School of Medicine.
19 Facts About Felicia Knaul
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Felicia Knaul is an economist with the Mexican Health Foundation and president of the non-governmental organization Tomatelo a Pecho, an advocacy organisation that promote women's health in Latin America.
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Felicia Knaul's father is a Holocaust survivor, whose family had been murdered by the Nazis.
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Felicia Knaul said that "the mute cry of the Holocaust was tattooed on my father's forearm,".
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Felicia Knaul moved to the United States for graduate studies, specializing in economics at Harvard University in the research group of Amartya Sen.
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Whilst completing her doctoral research, Felicia Knaul was appointed by the Colombian government to reform the Columbian Health System.
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Felicia Knaul moved to Mexico, where she joined the Mexican Health Foundation and worked with her husband Julio Frenk, then Minister of Health, to establish the Seguro Popular.
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In partnership with Frenk, Felicia Knaul created school systems in hospitals to educate young people in long-term treatment.
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Felicia Knaul has focused on tackling aspects of healthcare which have historically been overlooked, including transforming access to palliative care and improving access to cancer screening.
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Felicia Knaul served as chair of The Lancet commission on improving access to palliative care.
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Felicia Knaul established a non-profit focused on improving women's awareness of the risks associated with breast cancer in 2007.
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Felicia Knaul was appointed to the Lancet Commission on Women and Health in 2012, and argued that improving the health of girls and women is critical for sustainable development.
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In 2013, Felicia Knaul described her experiences in the book Beauty without the Breast.
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In 2009, Felicia Knaul joined the faculty at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, which was chaired by Amartya Sen.
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Felicia Knaul worked to expand access to cancer care around the world, launching the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care.
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Felicia Knaul was appointed director of the Miami Institute for the Advanced Study of the Americas in 2016, where she worked to guide palliative care in Mexico.
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Felicia Knaul was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer in 2007.
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Felicia Knaul underwent surgery in Mexico City, and, after a full mastectomy, had fifteen months of chemotherapy.
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Felicia Knaul is married to Julio Frenk, with whom she has two daughters.