Category: Hispanic Scientist Highlights

Helen Trías

“We need health, but above all we need to create a grounding for healthy public policy that redresses and salvages the growing inequities. We cannot achieve a healthier us without achieving a healthier, more equitable health care system, and ultimately, a more equitable society.” – Helen Trías

Mario Molina

“Scientists can depict the problems that will affect the environment based on available evidence, but their solution is not the responsibility of scientists, but of society as a whole.” – Mario Molina

Ynés Mexía

“In all my travels I’ve never been attacked by a wild animal, lost my way or caught a disease… I don’t think there’s any place in the world where a woman can’t venture.” – Ynés Mexía

Francés Colón

“I love the fact that I can use science to directly make people's lives better” – Francés Colón