Dr. Felicia Knaul

Partner Profile: The Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People

The Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People is dedicated to providing new research and data for the purpose of educating the international public on the scope of the issue, and pinpointing ways in which policymakers, activists and world leaders can act to alleviate the devastating effects of violence.

Seeing the brain through the eyes

New Research into Early Alzheimer’s Diagnoses Funded by the Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation

Ranked the #1 eye hospital in the country, The University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute has been advancing the frontiers of ophthalmology since 1962. One recent area of study out of the Institute is Dr. Delia Cabrera DeBuc’s research into developing retinal biomarkers to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in its earliest stages. Read more…

President Calderon and the Dean of the Miami Business School answer audience questions after the president's talk.

How the Finker-Frenkel World Leadership Forum Promotes Essential International Dialogue

On September 11, 2019, the Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation hosted a presentation on U.S.-Mexico relations from former Mexican president Felipe Calderón at the University of Miami Business School. The sold-out talk marked the second Finker-Frenkel World Leadership Forum event in less than a year, after a December 2018 presentation from former Read more…