Death investigations managed or supervised
A career spanning medicolegal death investigation, public health, hospital administration, and academic medicine.
Leadership
The Experience to Build. The Purpose to Transform.
A center built around science, executive discipline, and a commitment to the people behind every finding.
Leadership with proven impact
Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD
Board-certified forensic pathologist
Professor, Meharry Medical College
Physician executive, educator, and nationally recognized leader, Dr. Mitchell brings experience across academic medicine, public health, hospital administration, and medicolegal death investigation to the Center for the Global Practice of Death Investigation, Mortality Surveillance, & Policy Application.
His career demonstrates the ability to build and transform complex systems, align multidisciplinary teams, secure resources, and translate mortality evidence into prevention and policy.
Now a professor at Meharry Medical College, he brings the scientific credibility, executive discipline, global relationships, and commitment to workforce development required to build a durable national and international platform.
A professional record of systems change
Leadership That Connects
Evidence with Action.
Modernization and accountability
Led modernization efforts, established maternal, opioid, and violence mortality review committees, and secured full accreditation of the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Hospital enterprise responsibility
As President of Howard University Hospital, led the institution from financial crisis toward stability, achieved more than $1 million in recurring monthly cost-saving efficiencies, and introduced its first five-year strategic plan.
National Medical Association
National advocacy informed by scientific credibility, policy experience, and a commitment to training the next generation.
Building institutional capacity
Dr. Mitchell’s leadership has also included multimillion-dollar grant development, public-health emergency response, and academic program growth — experience that informs the Center’s proposed research, education, and rapid-response capacity.
Global relationships. Shared learning.
Practice Across Borders.
Dr. Mitchell has supported medicolegal and mortality-review initiatives in Belize, Mumbai, Zambia, and Egypt. The Center’s international ambition builds on these professional relationships.
- Belize
- Mumbai, India
- Zambia
- Egypt
One integrated mission
Learn from Death.
Protect Life.
The Center is being built to connect forensic medicine, public health analytics, law, education, and community-facing communication into measurable reform.