Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez
Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez | |
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| Deputy Secretary of Prevention and Health Promotion of Mexico | |
| Assumed office 1 December 2018 | |
| President | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| Preceded by | Pablo Kuri-Morales |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez February 22, 1969 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Secretary | Jorge Alcocer Varela |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico (MD, MS) |
| Spouse(s) | Arantxa Colchero (m. 1999; div. 2019), Rebeca Peralta-Mariñelarena (m. 2024 -) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Epidemiology, Infectious Disease |
| Institutions | Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition Secretariat of Health |
Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez is a Mexican epidemiologist, author, and public health official who has served as head of the Undersecretariat of Prevention and Health Promotion at the Mexican Secretariat of Health since 2018. Since January 2020, he has also been the spokesman and one of the lead members of the federal governments response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.