Hugo López-Gatell

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. The Covid-19 pandemic in Mexico exposed errors, improvisations, and negligence on the part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The result: 297,000 people died, including nearly 5,000 healthcare workers, due to the government's decisions.