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 * Was born on August 23, 1944 in Farjado, Puerto Rico.
 * She was a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator.
 * She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
 * She also served as fourteenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993.
 * She was the first women and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General.
 * She served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York from 1999 to 2006.
 * In 1979, she had joined the Public Health Service and had received commission in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
 * The first assignment given to her was as a project officer at the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.
 * While at NIH, Novello worked on an MPH degree from the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, receiving the degree in 1982.
 * She was actively involved in working with other organizations to promote immunization of children and childhood injury prevention efforts.
 * She spoke out often and forcefully about illegal underage drinking, and called upon the United States Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General to issue a series of eight reports on the subject.
 * After leaving the position of Surgeon General, Novello remained in the regular corps of the Public Health Service.
 * She was assigned the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Special Representative for Health and Nutrition from 1993 to 1996 reverting to her permanent two-star rank of rear admiral.
 * She served until 2006. Since 2008, Novello has been vice president of Women and Children Health and Policy Affairs at Disney Children’s Hospital at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida.
 * A January 2009 report by the New York Inspector General's office claimed that during her seven-year tenure as New York State Health Commissioner, Novello routinely abused her authority over health department staff, "turn[ing] her staff at the Health Department into her personal chauffeurs, porters and shopping assistants during her seven-year tenure."