Dr. Mark Mitchell

Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
mark.mitchell@environmental-justice.org
860-548-1133

Dr. Mitchell is a physician specializing in epidemiology and public health, including environmental health. He grew up in St Louis, Missouri, earned his M.D. degree at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and his Masters Degree in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. He also completed his Preventive Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins. Dr Mitchell served as Deputy Director of the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department for 7 years, before coming to Hartford where he was Director of Health for 4 years. He is also founder and President of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice. He has been a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee in addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the American Lung Association of Connecticut and the Hispanic Health Council. He chairs the Hartford Advisory Commission on the Environment. His work is focused on environmental justice, asthma and air pollution