Fernando M. Treviño, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Professor and Founding Dean, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center

Dr. Fernando M. Treviño is professor and founding dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. dr. Treviño also serves as a past president of the World Federation of Public Health Associations based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Treviño served as the executive director of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C. from 1993-1996. He was only the seventh person in 124 years to have served as the chief executive officer of this association, which is the oldest and largest society of public health workers in the world and the largest publisher of public health books and journals. dr. Treviño also served as the executive editor of the American Journal of Public Health.
He was one of the founders of the national Medicine and Public Health Initiative and served as co-chair of the Initiative from 1994-1996. He also served as the co-chair of the National Congress on Medicine and Public Health held in March 1996.

From 1991 to 1993, Treviño served as dean of the School of Health Professions and Professor of Health Administration at Southwest Texas State University. As dean he served as the chief academic officer of the nation's largest school of health professions with 2,000 students majoring in one of 11 different health occupations.

Treviño also served as director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Research and associate professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston from 1986-1991; as a senior scientist at the American Medical Association from 1984-1986; and as a social science analyst at the National Center for Health Statistics from 1980-1984. At the National Center for Health Statistics, Treviño served as the principal consultant to the design, implementation, and analysis of the $28 million Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey which interviewed and examined 12,000 Hispanic Americans.

In addition, he has served on numerous national committees and panels to include the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (was the founding chair of it's Subcommittee on Minority Health Statistics); and the Institute of Medicine's Access to Health Care Monitoring Panel; and the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Cancer Research Among Minorities and the Underserved. He holds a Ph.D. in preventive Medicine and Community Health from the University of Texas Medical Branch, a M.P.H. in Health Services Administration from the University of Texas School of Public Health and a B.S. degree in psychology from the University of Houston.

Treviño has published and lectured extensively on national statistical data policy and Mexican American and minority health issues. In honor of his service to the American Public Health Association, they established the annual Fernando M. Treviño Award for Excellence. He is the recipient of the Surgeon General’s Certificate of Appreciation and he received a letter of citation in 1995 from President William Clinton for his health care reform efforts. Dr. Treviño received the 1998 Executive Director’s Citation from the American Public Health Association. In 2000, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas Medical Branch Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Galveston. Also, he was elected an honorary Fellow of the Polish Society of Hygiene and is one of only 100 persons in the world elected as an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Health in the United Kingdom.