José Narro Robles José Narro Robles José Narro Robles (born December 5, 1948 in Saltillo, Coahuila) is a Mexican researcher, academic, and politician. He is a former director of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and was elected its 23rd Rector on November 20, 2007. After two 4-year periods leading UNAM, in February 2016, he was appointed by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to replace Mercedes Juan as head of the Mexican Secretariat of Health. Robles has enacted as adviser for the World Health Organization, WHO and UNICEF. He has been president of the National Academy of
School of Sciences, UNAM four other buildings lodging the Faculty's respective departments and their faculty. The newer part of the complex consists of two buildings, one called "Amoxcalli", which holds the Faculty's library and the Computing Center. The newest one is called "Tlahuizcalpan" which hosts various labs and research premises, as well as classrooms. In recent years, an interdisciplinary extension of the Faculty was inaugurated in the port of Sisal, Yucatán, devoted to the research of coastal ecosystems and their species. The National Herbarium of Mexico at UNAM in Mexico City houses the largest collection of plant specimens in all of Latin America and