Christina Mullins

Christina Mullins is the Deputy Cabinet Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder. Previously, she served as the Commissioner for the Bureau for Behavioral Health, Director of the Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health and has worked in a variety of maternal and child health programs.  In her 25-year tenure in State government, she has worked to establish West Virginia’s youth anti-tobacco campaign, collaborated with a multitude of partners to launch a surveillance system for neonatal abstinence syndrome, co-authored the 2016 West Virginia Overdose Fatality Analysis, and offered testimony to the US Congress regarding the opioid epidemic in January of 2020.  Christina was honored with the Maternal Child Health Bureau Director’s Award in October 2018 for her national contributions to the health of infants, mothers, children and children with special health care needs, and was recently recognized as a mental health hero by WV Living Magazine. Christina graduated from Marshall University with a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology.