Jessica Mitchell

Dr
Jessica
Mitchell

Chancellors Fellow
University of Edinburgh
Biography
Jessica Mitchell is a zoologist by training but has worked across One Health and Educational research with a variety of international collaborators from different disciplinary backgrounds. Her current portfolio focuses on antimicrobial resistance and snake bite prevention using community engagement approaches to understand these challenges, and co-develop locally meaningful solutions which can feed into policy-level discussion and prompt sustainable systemic action. In 2019 she co-founded the Community Engagement for Antimicrobial Resistance (CE4AMR) network with colleagues at the University of Leeds. This global network champions the development of equitable partnerships across research, community and policy level stakeholders, and co-creates interventions which address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from a behaviour change perspective in low resource settings. The network has successfully secured multiple GCRF and wider UKRI funds. Due to the longevity of partnerships involved in the network they are now able to implement long-term evaluations of such community engagement interventions allowing impacts on behaviour change to be realised.
Research interests
Antimicrobial Resistance AMR, One Health interactions, behavior change
Discipline
Social sciences
Host species
Wildlife Zoonoses