Mexico City, November 27, 2025. – The Technological University of Mexico (UNITEC) successfully held the First UNITEC Health Sciences Congress and the Third Laureate International Primary Health Care Forum. These events, held on November 24 and 25 at the Cuitláhuac Campus, brought together national and international experts to address the main challenges in the care of older adults.
Under the motto of innovation, humanization of care, and generation of scientific evidence, both events brought together academics, researchers, health authorities, and students around key topics such as geriatrics, gerontology, palliative care, healthy aging, chronic inflammation, gut microbiota, robotics applied to care, and caregiver syndrome.
The opening was led by a presidium including the rector of the Marina-Cuitláhuac Campus, Nancy Bucio Gómez; the vice president of Laureate Mexico, Raúl Caraballo Guevara; the vice president of Health Sciences of Laureate Mexico, Carlos Henze; the secretary of the General Health Council, Patricia Clark; and the president of the Mexican Geriatrics Council, Alejandro Herrera Landero.
Simultaneously, the Third Laureate International Primary Health Care Forum included the participation of institutions such as the National Institute of Geriatrics (INGER), the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), the University of San Martín de Porres, and the Inter-American Conference of Social Security (CISS), consolidating a space for inter-institutional and international collaboration.
The closing of the event was in charge of Dr. Marta Zapata Tarrés, a researcher from the Ministry of Health and former head of the Coordinating Commission of National Health Institutes, who emphasized the urgency of producing rigorous knowledge in the face of the rapid demographic transition that Mexico and the world are experiencing:
“Research is the basis for transforming health systems; we need evidence that responds to the real needs of older adults and their caregivers.”
Throughout the two days, specialists from Mexico, Uruguay, and Peru participated. Among the distinguished presentations were the situation of palliative care in Uruguay by Carla Palombo, advances in human service robotics applied to health presented by Dr. Alejandro Porras Bojalil, and the relationship between microbiota and aging by Dr. Ronald Stuart Leder.
