Jewel Mullen, M.D., MPH

Jewel Mullen, M.D., MPH, is the founding associate dean for health equity at Dell Medical School and holds an associate professor position in the departments of Population Health and Internal Medicine. She also serves as the director of health equity for Ascension Seton and director of health equity and quality for Central Health, Travis County’s health district. She leads efforts to propel health care equity and improve access to care across those systems by strengthening their collaboration, their implementation of shared equity strategies and their engagement with communities and public health.

An internist, epidemiologist and public health expert, Mullen formerly served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health. She has held faculty appointments at the schools of medicine for New York University, University of Virginia, Yale University and Tufts University.

Board-certified in internal medicine, Mullen received her bachelor’s degree and Master of Public Health from Yale University, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychosocial epidemiology. She graduated from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society, and completed her residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.