Mexico's SMSP public health institute ready for greater influence
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Pablo Kuri Morales began his tenure as president of Mexico's public health institute, Sociedad Mexicana de Salud Pública, with the unveiling last week of its 2009-10 work plan. Its main aim is to strengthen its policy-generating influence and role as interlocutor between public health players (the document is available at: www.smsp.org.mx). The SMSP is a long-standing and influential non-governmental preventive healthcare policy body that ostensibly focuses on the under-covered segments of the population. Dr Kuri's medical and healthcare policy career has specialised in surgery (he is member of the national surgery academy) and epidemiological surveillance.