Martinez had been working on other national task forces, including with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with the secretary of health and human services. He also has been working with the chair of the task force, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, on how to increase the number of minorities working in health care.
Martinez will continue to be the executive director of the Hogg Foundation while working on the COVID-19 health equity task force, which he s been told could last for a few weeks or up to two years. He will use vacation time and personal time to for task force work.