About Me
Felicia Marie Knaul dedicates her research and advocacy to reducing inequities and strengthening health systems to improve the wellbeing of vulnerable populations. Combining health systems science and economics, she has made policy contributions and pioneered research in women´s and children´s health, global cancer, palliative care and pain relief, and health financing. She founded Tómatelo a Pecho, a Mexican NGO dedicated to improving women´s health and transformed her breast cancer experience into evidence-based innovations for low-income populations. She directs the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and is a Professor of the Miller School of Medicine.