Dr. Mehul Dalal (Mehul)

Biographical information

Mehul Dalal, MD, MSc, MHS is an experienced public sector leader with a background in health and human services leadership, public health administration, clinical care, non-profit governance, and entrepreneurship.
Since January of 2020, Dr. Dalal has been serving as the Community Services Administrator for the City of New Haven where he oversees the City’s Health and Human Services Departments, including Public Health, Homelessness Services, Food Policy, Youth and Recreation, Elderly Services, Reentry Services, and Financial Empowerment. During COVID19 he has served as part of the City’s Unified Command Team overseeing pandemic response.

From 2012-2019, Dr. Dalal served as the Chronic Disease Director at the Connecticut Department of Public Health where he provided strategic vision, leadership and administrative oversight for the Department’s Chronic Disease Unit guiding teams to strategically and responsibly manage millions in state and federal resources to the benefit of at-risk populations in Connecticut. Dr. Dalal was also designated to help guide public health aspects of the State’s health care reform initiatives under the Affordable Care Act. He was previously the Medical Director of Quality Improvement at the New York City Department of Health’s Cardiovascular Program, working with primary care providers to promote best practices in the prevention of heart disease and stroke.

Dr. Dalal has led or served on numerous stakeholder groups including serving as the Board President of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, Co-chair of the State Innovation Model Quality Metrics Council, Vice Chair of the Connecticut Cancer Partnership and as a member of the Donaghue Foundation Policy Advisory Committee.

Dr. Dalal has practiced primary care at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and at Fair Haven Community Health Care in New Haven. He has contributed to peer reviewed publications that appear in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Journal of Clinical Hypertension and the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. Dr. Dalal received an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at Brown University and a Doctor of Medicine from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He completed an internal medicine residency at New York University and is a graduate of the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program