Dr. Jaime Sepulveda, Senior Fellow, serves as a deputy to Global Health President Tachi Yamada and plays a central role in shaping the foundation’s overall global health strategy as part of its executive team. Sepulveda works closely with key foundation partners—including the GAVI Alliance, where he chairs the Executive Committee—to increase access to vaccines and other effective health solutions in developing countries. He also serves as Director of Special Initiatives in the Global Health Program. Sepulveda was formerly Director of Integrated Health Solutions Development at the foundation.
Sepulveda served for more than 20 years in a variety of senior health posts in the Mexican government. He was director of the National Institutes of Health of Mexico from 2003 to 2006. He also served as director-general of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health and dean of the National School of Public Health.
In addition to his research credentials, Sepulveda is an experienced implementer of effective health programs. As Mexico’s director-general of epidemiology and later vice minister of health, Sepulveda designed Mexico’s Universal Vaccination Program, which eliminated polio, measles, and diphtheria by more than doubling childhood immunization coverage in two years. He also designed a national health surveillance system and founded Mexico’s National AIDS Council.
Sepulveda holds a medical degree from National Autonomous University of Mexico and three advanced degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.