Vicente

Navarro

, MD, DrPH, DMSA

Vicente Navarro is currently a Professor of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, ​​Spain. He is also a professor of Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins University where he has taught for 45 years. He is the Founding Director of the Johns Hopkins University – Pompeu Fabra University Public Policy Center and the Johns Hopkins University Fall Institute, both based in Barcelona, Spain. When he's not teaching, Navarros directs the Social Observatory of Spain, a space for analysis, debate and reflection that generates scientifically-based knowledge on social issues through its own studies and competitive calls.

Navarro has advised the United Nations, the World Health Organization and many governments including: the Popular Unity government of Chile, the Cuban government (on its health reform), the Swedish social democratic government, the Spanish socialist government, the Catalan tripartite and “d’entesa” governments, as well as the United States federal government, having been a member of the White House working group on health reform led by Hillary Clinton.

He has published books extensively, with 24 books being translated into several languages.

• In 2002, he published the book Bienestar Insuficiente, Democracia Incompleta: De lo que no se hable en nuestro pais (English title: Insufficient Welfare, Incomplete Democracy: A Book About What Is Being Silenced in Spain), which denounced the way in which the transition from dictatorship to democracy has been engineered. That same year, the book earned him the Anagrama Prize, Spain's equivalent to the U.S. Pulitzer Prize.
• Around the same time, he coordinated a two-year research project funded by the European Commission to study the impact of political and social factors on health of the populations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The study involved five research themes based in Spain, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and Italy. The research produced a book entitled, The Political and Social Context of Health, published by Baywood Publishers in the year 2004.
• Co-authored with Juan Torres López, Alberto Garzón Espinosa, and Noam Chomsky, Hay Alternativas: Propuestas para crear empleo y bienestar social en España (English title: There Are Alternatives: Proposals to create employment and social wellbeing in Spain) was the bestseller in economics in 2012.

According to the International Scientific Information Agency of the University of Pennsylvania (Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies), Professor Navarro is one of the most cited Spanish scientists in international scientific literature in social sciences (which includes political sciences, economics, sociology, and others). In December 2009, he was named an Honoris Causa Doctor by the University of Malaga, and in March 2013 by the University of Lleida. In 2014 he received the Stebbins Award, which is given to the best professor in the Public Policy Program at Johns Hopkins University.

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