Dr. Janie Canty-Mitchell is a native of Sumter, South Carolina with 40 years of experience as a professional registered nurse. Her career includes experiences in psychiatric/mental health nursing, public health nursing, supervision and administration, program development, project management, coalition building, teaching, and research. Community partnerships have been a core component of her public health nursing practice, teaching in academic settings, and research and scholarly endeavors. She earned a diploma in nursing from Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing in 1971 and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Florida State University in 1979. Later she matriculated at the University of Miami in Coral Gables Florida earning both a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN 1988) and a PhD in Nursing (1993). She is dedicated to education and lifelong learning as evident from her 24 years of teaching, research, and service in higher education in Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, and now Texas.
Dr. Canty-Mitchell’s activities in academic settings have included teaching at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels. She has taught courses in community/public health nursing, family and population health nursing, health policy, leadership and management, professional role development, research, community health outreach: service learning, child and adolescent health disparities, and doctoral dissertation seminars.
In collaboration with community organizations and interdisciplinary groups, Dr. Canty-Mitchell has partnered with both undergraduate and graduate students to develop, plan, and implement health interventions designed to promote child and adolescent health and decrease health disparities. Projects have included grief and loss counseling for juvenile offenders; parenting programs to incarcerated women with children; family strengthening programs to promote healthy behaviors in school-children; asthma education programs for minority, low income, and migrant children and families; and parenting and child health programs at risk families.
Dr. Canty-Mitchell has presented at local, regional, national, and international conferences and published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, journals, and books. Her areas of expertise are public health nursing, health disparities, child and adolescent mental health, positive youth development, university-community partnerships, nursing research, grant writing, and administration in higher education.
Nationally, she was appointed a charter member and nurse consultant on the Children and Family Study Section, Center for Scientific Review (2004-2008); Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program (2009-2012); and the Leadership America (2012-2013).
In August, 2012, Dr. Canty-Mitchell began her appointment as Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Health Systems in the School of Nursing at UT Health Sciences Center San Antonio. She was also honored to receive the Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professorship in Nursing by the university. She looks forward to ongoing university-community partnerships to promote health in underserved and diverse populations in San Antonio and the surrounding Texas communities
