Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., D.F.A.P.A., is Senior Associate Vice President and Executive Director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas at Austin. Martinez is also the Associate Chair for Faculty Academic Affairs for the Dell Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, a Professor of Psychiatry at DMS, Clinical Professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, Faculty Affiliate of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice in the School of Law, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Long School of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio. Internationally, Martinez is a member of the Global Leadership Exchange. Nationally, he is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is also a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Psychiatric Services Journal editorial board. Additionally, he is a founding advisory board member for the Meharry School of Global Health, a national advisory committee member for Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW), the founding chair of the national advisory council to the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership at Yale School of Management, a board member of Trust for America’s Health, and current member and former chair of the National Hispanic Council on Aging.
Martinez recently served on the Presidential COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force for the White House and served on the National Advisory Committee for Rural Health and Human Services for HHS. At the Texas state level, he is a commissioner for the Judicial Commission on Mental Health and executive committee member for the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium. He has a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University’s School of Public Health, a doctor’s degree in medicine from Baylor College of Medicine, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in business administration with a concentration in finance from The University of Texas at Austin. He was Chief Resident during his psychiatric training at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and is an alumnus of The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard Medical School.
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health directory listing
Journal Articles
Martinez, Octavio N Jr. (2023). Who is Responsible for Addressing Racial Disparities and Health Equity in Older Adults? Public Policy & Aging Report, 2023. prad030, https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/prad030
Bhandari, E., Mohr Boleware, A., & Martinez Jr., O. N. (2023). Systems-Change Philanthropy: It’s Essential, and It’s Our Responsibility. The Foundation Review, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.9707/1944- 5660.1652