Salud pública en megaciudades y ciudades de rápido crecimiento (Ed3)

Enrique Cifuentes joined the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2010. During his years at Harvard, he implemented exchange programs using innovative approaches to teaching and training that gave countless public health professionals from Latin American, the Caribbean, Canada, the US, and others an opportunity to learn in complex environments. He also co-led a project on air pollution in Mexico City and developed teaching case studies for post-grad students from both Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Before joining the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he conducted extensive research on water, sanitation and public health (including Dengue), particularly in Latin America and the US Mexico border. He also held academic appointments at the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH, 1995-2010) and the National Institute of Nutrition (1983-1994) in Mexico, as well as the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York (2008-2012).As part of a collaboration between NIPH and Mount Sinai supported by the Foggarty Center of NIH (2005-2010), he taught the course “Youth and environmental health to prevent chronic disease, International Course.” Through this and other educational activities, as well as research projects, he built an extensive and robust collaborative network of institutions and researchers across the Latin America and Caribbean region.

Enrique Cifuentes holds an MD (National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1979); Masters in Community Medicine (1982) and a Ph.D., Epidemiology and Population Sciences, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (1995). Between 1983-89 he directed a Primary Health Program in indigenous Nahuatl communities, Mexico.