Jewel Mullen

Jewel Mullen, MD, MPH, MPA is the Associate Dean for Health Equity and Associate Professor of Population Health and Internal Medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. She also serves as Director of Health Equity at Ascension Seton and Director of Health Equity and Quality at Central Health, the Travis County, Texas Health District. Her career has spanned clinical, research, teaching policy and administrative roles focused on improving the health of all people, especially the underserved.

Mullen previously served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) and Director of the Bureau of Community Health and Prevention at the Massachusetts DPH. She is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in building effective community-based chronic disease prevention programs and for her commitment to improving individual and population health by strengthening coordination between community, public health and health care systems.

Her work with Central Health includes collaboration in development and implementation of its service delivery Health Care Equity Plan whose goal is to eliminate health care disparities and assure the best health possible for the people it serves.