Dr. Alexander Billioux

Dr. Alex Billioux is the Vice President for Social Determinants of Health at UnitedHealthcare

Government Programs. He is an internal medicine primary care doctor focused on improving

individual and community health through innovative cross sector population health strategies, primary

care driven health care delivery models, and sharing data to foster coordinated, learning health

systems. Dr. Billioux was formerly the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Public Health at the

Louisiana Department of Health where he led the state’s public health agency charged with protecting

and promoting the health of all individuals and communities in Louisiana. In that role he negotiated the

nation’s first modified subscription model for hepatitis C treatment and established a five year hepatitis

C elimination plan, launched the Community HealthWays program to address individual health related

social needs and community health factors, and led the state’s COVID 19 pandemic response.

Previously, Dr. Billioux served as Senior Advisor to the Director of the Center for Medicare and

Medicaid Innovation and directed the Division of Population Health Incentives and Infrastructure. In

that role, he led the Accountable Health Communities and Integrated Care for Kids models, both care

delivery models aimed at improving health by integrating health care and social care systems around

individual and community needs. Dr. Billioux was a 2015 2016 White House Fellow, serving at the

Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. He holds a part

time appointment in the Department of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he trained and

served as Assistant Chief of Service of the Osler Medical Service. Dr. Billioux has worked

internationally on HIV, tuberculosis, and other diseases of poverty in Guatemala, Haiti, India, South

Africa, and Uganda.

Dr. Billioux received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University and his D.Phil. in clinical medicine from

the University of Oxford. He holds a B.A. from the Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern State