Mercedes Martha Juan López (born 22 April 1943) is a Mexican doctor, member of the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...

, has been a federal deputy and first female

Secretary of Health A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare spending and other social security services. Some governments have separate Minister of Mental Health, ...

between 1 December 2012 and 8 February 2016. Mercedes Juan is a Surgeon graduated from the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

and has a specialty in rehabilitation medicine. From 1983 to 1988 she was technical secretary of the Health Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic in the government of

Miguel de la Madrid Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (; 12 December 1934 – 1 April 2012) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988. Inheriting a severe economic an ...

, and from 1988 to 1994 she was Assistant Secretary of Regulation and Health Promotion of the Ministry of Health, holding the same Jesús Kumate Rodríguez in the government of

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. Elected federal deputy through the plurinominal way in 1997 to the LVII Legislature that concluded in 2000 and in which she was vice-coordinator of the parliamentary faction of the PRI and vice president of the board of directors, secretary of the commission of Health and Population and Development; from 2001 to 2007 she was a member of the Social Council of the Governing Board of the National Institute for Women and in 2007 she was commissioner of Sanitary Operation of the

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(COFEPRIS). From September 2009 to November 2012, she was Executive President of the Mexican Foundation for Health A.C.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Juan Lopez, Mercedes 1943 births Living people Politicians from Mexico City Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican women politicians Mexican surgeons Women secretaries of state of Mexico Secretaries of health of Mexico National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Deputies of the LVII Legislature of Mexico