Rate My Professor Brett Mitchell

Professor Brett Mitchell is an Honorary Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Newcastle. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the Australian Catholic University and a Master of Advanced Practice from Griffith University. Mitchell possesses extensive clinical experience in acute medicine, infectious diseases, cardiology, medical admissions, public health, and nurse immunisation across hospital and non-hospital settings in Australia and the United Kingdom. His career includes roles such as Senior Nurse Manager at North Glamorgan NHS Trust (2006-2007), Assistant Director of Nursing in Public and Environmental Health at the Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania (2008-2013), Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Tasmania (2012-2013), and Professor of Nursing at Avondale College (2017-2019). Currently, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the international peer-reviewed journal Infection, Disease and Health, a position he has held since 2013. Mitchell has led nursing teams, research teams, and infection prevention and control programs, contributing to numerous committees including Chair of the NHMRC Infection Control Guidelines Committee (2018), National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce Guideline Leadership Group (2020), and Infection Control Expert Group for the Australian Government Department of Health (2020).