Dr. Jewel Marie Mullen, an acclaimed doctor in Massachusetts, will be named as Connecticut's new state health director, officials said Friday.
Mullen's appointment will be announced Tuesday, according to the incoming Malloy administration.
Mullen currently works for the Boston-based state Department of Public Health in Massachusetts, serving as the director of the Bureau of Community Health and Prevention, as well as the director of chronic diseases.
She has a sterling resume from some of the top universities in the country. Mullen has strong ties to Connecticut as she received both bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University in New Haven. She also held a post-doctoral fellowship at the university, where she has been a lecturer in epidemiology at the Yale medical school.