Felicia Marie Knaul (born April 24, 1966) is a British-Canadian health economist who is director of the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and a professor at the Miller School of Medicine.

Seguro Popular was a social insurance system that provided Mexican people with access to health services.

In partnership with Frenk, Knaul created school systems in hospitals to educate young people in long-term treatment.

[6] It revealed that people in low and middle income countries often struggle to access palliative care, and that millions of adults and children die in considerable pain.

[3][12] Within months of arriving, she coordinated an international conference on breast cancer care in low and middle income countries.

[4] Knaul was appointed director of the Miami Institute for the Advanced Study of the Americas in 2016,[11] where she worked to guide palliative care in Mexico.