Building on the continuous improvements of the Federal Commission for the Protection Against Sanitary Risk (Cofepris) over the last few years, its recently-appointed Federal Commissioner Julio Sánchez y Tépoz reveals his strategy to further strengthen and develop the Commission’s processes and international leadership, and foster a more transparent, technical, efficient and global regulatory agency, which will tirelessly strive to improve the competitiveness of the pharmaceutical industry while never compromising its mission to increase the access of the Mexican population to a well-supplied and quality pharmaceutical market.
After holding key senior positions at Cofepris since you joined the Commission in 2011, you were appointed Federal Commissioner by Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto in March 2016. How has the Commission evolved between 2011 and the beginning of your tenure?
Since 2011, Cofepris’s strategy has been primarily based on two main priorities: increasing the number of therapeutic options available to the Mexican population, and concentrating our efforts on the diseases that represent the largest share of mortality causes in our country.
