Key National and Texas Mental Health Updates

Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr. is the fifth Executive Director to lead the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health since its creation in 1940 at The University of Texas at Austin, where he oversees the vision, mission, goals, strategic planning and day-to-day operations of the foundation. 

About Dr. Octavio Martinez:

Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., F.A.P.A., is executive director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas at Austin.  The foundation’s grants and programs support mental health services, research, policy analysis, and public education projects in Texas.  The Hogg Foundation is part of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at UT-Austin.  Dr. Martinez also holds an appointment of Senior Associate Vice-President and heads up the Community Integrated Health Initiatives program for the Division.  Additionally, he is a Professor of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School and Clinical Professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work.

Dr. Martinez also serves on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Preparedness and Response Board of Scientific Counselors and on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s, Health and Medicine Division’s Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity.  He is a member of the board of directors for Trust for America’s Health, board member (and former chair) of the National Hispanic Council on Aging, member of the American Heart Association’s Workplace Health Steering Committee, a commissioner on the Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health, an executive committee member of the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium, and member of the Austin State Hospital Redesign Steering Committee.