Arreola-Ornelas, Héctor

Research Professor at the Obesity Research Institute and at the School of Government and Public Transformation of Tec de Monterrey. He is also Executive Director of Tómatelo a Pecho a NGO in Mexico City, and visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies for the Americas at the University of Miami. Master in Health Economics from Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and the National Institute of Public Health (INSP). He also studied a degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). In 2005 he was awarded first place in the Global Development Network Research Award, in the Health and Institutional Development category for his work "Preventing impoverishment, promoting equity and protecting households from financial crisis: Universal health insurance through institutional reform in Mexico " written in conjunction with Felicia Marie Knaul, Oscar Méndez and Martha Miranda. His lines of research cover financial protection, health policies and systems, labor economics, economic evaluation, and health and cancer systems. He has worked at the Mexican Institute of Social Security, the INSP and the CIDE, and the Mexican Foundation for Health (FUNSALUD). He is the author of 77 research papers and 12 book chapters. He belongs to the National System of Researchers in Mexico.

Research Professor at the Obesity Research Institute and at the School of Government and Public Transformation of Tec de Monterrey. He is also Executive Director of Tómatelo a Pecho a NGO in Mexico City, and visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies for the Americas at the University of Miami. Master in Health Economics from the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) and the National Institute of Public Health (INSP). He also studied a degree in Economics from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). In 2005 he was awarded first place in the Global Development Network Research Award, in the Health and Institutional Development category for his work "Preventing impoverishment, promoting equity and protecting households from financial crisis: Universal health insurance through institutional reform in Mexico " written in conjunction with Felicia Marie Knaul, Oscar Méndez and Martha Miranda. His lines of research cover financial protection, health policies and systems, labor economics, economic evaluation, and health and cancer systems. He has worked at the Mexican Institute of Social Security, the INSP and the CIDE, and the Mexican Foundation for Health (FUNSALUD). He is the author of 75 research papers and 12 book chapters. He belongs to the National System of Researchers in Mexico.