PsySTAR at University of Glasgow

Professor Richard Mitchell

Professor of Health and Environment (Public Health)
BSc(Hons), PhD
E-mail Richard.Mitchell@glasgow.ac.uk
Telephone 0141 330 1663
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Professor Rich Mitchell is Professor of Health and Environment at the Institute for Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow. He is an epidemiologist and geographer with a particular focus on the roles which environments can play in creating, maintaining and perhaps reducing inequalities in health. Prior to joining Glasgow, he was Associate Director of the Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Earlier in his career he focused on monitoring and exploring socio-economic and geographic inequalities in health and how they might be narrowed. Today, his focus is on the potential for green spaces to positively influence population health and health inequalities. Professor Mitchell is a member of the Scottish Government’s Good Places, Better Health Evaluation Group, with a remit to provide strategic thinking on environment and health. He is also a co-founder of the Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health (http://cresh.org.uk), an interdisciplinary and inter-institute centre, focused on exploring how physical and social environments can influence population health, for better and for worse.