Dr. Mitchell has worked as Director of the Hartford Health Department, and with environmental justice communities to prevent and reduce environmentally-related disease and change policies that are detrimental to environmental health. Dr. Mitchell co-chairs the NMA’s Commission on Environmental Health. He is also Director of State Affairs for the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. He chairs the Equity and Environmental Justice Subcommittee on Climate Adaptation on the CT Governor’s Council on Climate Change.