Fernando Treviño, Ph.D., M.P.H., founding Dean of the UNT Health Science
Center's School of Public Health, serves as Executive Director of the Texas Institute for
Hispanic Health.

Dr. Treviño is a former President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations
based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also served as Executive Director of the American
Public Health Association, Executive Editor of the American Journal of Public Health and
Executive Editor of The Nation's Health.



Dr. Treviño has citations from a former President and  Surgeon General and has served on major policymaking
councils and committees on federal, state, and foundation levels. He is one of only 100 people worldwide named
an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Health (United Kingdom). Dr. Treviño was recently appointed to the Texas
Legislature's nine-member Health Disparities Task Force.

Dr. Manuel Bayona is a Mexican physician and biostatistician, who obtained his doctoral
degree in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University . He has served as an infectious
disease epidemiologist for the World Health Organization in Africa, and for the Pan
American Health Organization and UNICEF in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and other
Latin American countries. His research interests and publications have mostly been in
epidemiology of infectious diseases including tropical diseases, Hansen's disease,
tuberculosis and asthma in the Latino population.

In 2000, he became a faculty member at the University of North Texas Health Science Center's School of Public
Health where he served as an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Doctoral Program. Today,
he serves TIHH as the Associate Director of Research and Informatics.

On July 1, 2005, he became a Professor and Director of the School of Public Health at the College of Human
and Community Sciences of the University of Nevada, Reno.