Research Professor at the Institute for Research on Obesity and the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He is also Executive Director of Tómatelo a Pecho A.C., and a visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies for the Americas at the University of Miami. Master's degree in Health Economics from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and the National Institute of Public Health (INSP); he also studied a degree in Economics from the Institute Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Director of the Pan American Health Office on Noncommunicable Diseases and Risk Factors. In 2005 he was awarded first place in the Research Award of the Global Development Network, in the category of Health and Institutional Development for his work "Preventing impoverishment, promoting equity and protecting households from financial crisis: Universal health insurance through institutional reform in Mexico" written jointly 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 National Institute of Public Health, the Center for Economic Research and Teaching, and the Mexican Foundation for Health (FUNSALUD). He is the author of 82 research papers, co-editor of 2 books and 12 book chapters. He belongs to the National System of Researchers in Mexico, level 2.
harreola@tec.mx
