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Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi is a family physician, Associate Professor, and Director for Health Equity at Duke University’s Department of Family Medicine & Community Health. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.
Elected President-Elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) in 2023, she will serve as President from 2025 to 2027. She was previously a WONCA Executive Member-at-Large and liaison to the World Health Organization from 2016 to 2021.
Dr. Martinez-Bianchi is the Co-founder and Chair of the Board of LATIN-19, a coalition dedicated to advancing health equity for Latinx communities. In 2020, Dr Martinez-Bianchi was featured in a minidocumentary video by Univision highlighting her work in the pandemic. The documentary, “The Heroes of the Pandemic”, can be seen in the LATIN-19 website http://latin19.org/who-we-are/
In 2023, President Biden appointed her to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. She was selected as a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine in 2022, and appointed by Governor Roy Cooper in 2020 to the Andrea Harris Social, Economic, Environmental, and Health Equity Task Force. That same year, she was appointed Latinx Health Advisor for the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) by Secretary Mandy Cohen.
She has been a leader in multiple state and national health equity initiatives and is the Principal Investigator of NC-FIEL at Duke FMCH, a project expanding health insurance enrollment among Hispanic/Latino communities in North Carolina.
Her contributions have earned numerous accolades, including the 2021 NC Family Doctor of the Year, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's F. Marian Bishop Leadership Award, the Duke Presidential Award, and recognition by WTVD ABC-11, Durham Magazine, and The News & Observer.
She has completed several fellowships, including:
- Faculty Development with Emphasis in Caring for Underserved Populations – University of Cincinnati (2005)
- Family Medicine Faculty Development with Emphasis in Cultural Competency – Cultural Medicine Training Center (2015)
- Teaching for Equity Fellowship – Duke University (2018)
- Chancellor’s Clinical Leadership Program – Duke University (2014)
Originally from Argentina, she earned her medical degree from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Iowa, where she was chief resident, and later served as faculty. She has co-authored multiple publications and is a sought-after speaker on health equity, leadership, and family medicine from a global perspective.