Yohualli Anaya

Yohualli B. Anaya, MD, MPH earned her medical degree and Master of Public Health from the USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. She completed residency training at the UCLA Family Medicine Residency Program. Before coming to the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH) in 2022, Dr. Anaya was core residency faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and co-chair for the Family Medicine Core Clerkship. Dr. Anaya’s professional interests include the application of research to promote policies and programs that address health equity. Her research interests include Latinx and immigrant health, investigating and addressing aspects of health care delivery that act as barriers to health care equity, and issues of physician workforce diversity.

Dr. Anaya is a primary care doctor at the Access Community Health Center Wingra Family Medical Center. As residency faculty, she teaches residents and medical students inpatient and outpatient Family Medicine. Her clinical interests include full-spectrum primary care for the whole family, including pediatrics and outpatient procedures, and providing language-concordant care to Spanish-speaking patients. Dr. Anaya is also the Co-Director of the CESLAC Accelerating Latinx Leadership Institute and an Associate Editor for the Family Medicine journal.