Julio Daniel Salinas Grecco (born 17 February 1962) is a Uruguayan neurologist and politician of Open Cabildo (CA), who served as Minister of Public Health of Uruguay from 1 March 2020 to 13 March 2023.
[3] After leaving government service, on April 10, 2023 it was announced that Salinas would take up the position of dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Catholic University of Uruguay.
Between 2012 and 2018 he served as head of the Electroencephalography Service at Vilardebó Hospital, while between 2009 and 2019 as manager of Material Resources of the Uruguay Medical Union Assistance Center (CASMU).
[3] Salinas was appointed Minister of Public Health on December 16, 2019, as a member of a party that makes up the electoral alliance, Coalición Multicolor.
He had found the attention by anti-vaccine groups upsetting when he was called a "genocidal traitor".