Asa Cristina Laurell is a Mexican sociologist who has had a long career in both research and government positions.
She is known for her role in helping to found the Latin American Association of Social Medicine (ALAMES), as well as the contributions she has made to widening access to health care for Mexicans during her time in government.
After she moved to Mexico, she spent time working, before attending the Universidad Nacional de Misiones of Argentina (UNAM).
During this time, she published papers that discussed how neoliberal health policies in various Latin American countries could be more progressive to help more patients.
[6] During her time in academia, she was also a founding member of an organization called the Latin American Association of Social Medicine (ALAMES).
In her time in this position, she was described as having a "vision of a fully tax-funded, free at the point-of-care health system integrating financing and provision.
[9] In 2006, she resigned from her position in order to work for Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his campaign for president.