Mark Mitchell MD, MPH, is semi-retired as Emeritus Professor of Climate Change, Energy, & Environmental Health Equity at George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communications. Dr. Mitchell Co-Chairs the Connecticut Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Council, with the Commissioner of the CT Department of Environmental Protection. He also chairs the National Medical Association’s Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change, where he provides environmental health education and advocates on behalf of NMA. A preventive medicine physician trained in environmental health and health policy, Dr. Mitchell has spent over twenty years working in the public health sector, including as Director of the Hartford, Connecticut Health Department and Deputy Director of the Kansas City Missouri Health Department. He spent fifteen years working with environmental justice communities to prevent and reduce environmentally related disease as well as to change policies detrimental to health.Dr. Mitchell has served on the U.S. EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, their National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology, and on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products. He received the “Physician of the Year” award and the "James M. Whittico Jr. National Health Advocate Award" from National Medical Association; the "Damu Smith Environmental Health Achievement Award" from the American Public Health Association; the "Child Health Advocate Award-Policy" from the Children’s Environmental Health Network; and the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from U.S. EPA New England.Dr. Mitchell received his M.D. from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and his Master’s in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University where he was trained in environmental health and health policy