In this interview, we sat down with Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD, FAAFP, a Family Medicine and Primary Care Physician at Duke Family Medicine Center and an associate professor in Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University. She is also a co-founder of the LatinX Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19 (LATIN-19), a group founded to advance health equity for the LatinX community. At the beginning of the interview, Dr. Martinez-Bianchi describes how this group was created and how the aims of the group are rooted in health promotion, reduction in health disparities, and social justice. Dr. Martinez-Bianchi describes the use of a health equity lens to consider the ways policy, systems, interventions, etc. affect certain groups of people. Dr. Martinez-Bianchi also discusses the importance of medical education rooted in health equity, activating communities to be involved in transforming healthcare and health systems, and the development of multilevel relationships to address health inequity.

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