Agency Administrators

• Nelson Atehortua De la Pena, MD, PhD, MPH
  Director, Office of Health Data and Research
• Christy Barnett, MD
  Southern Regional Health Officer
• David Caulfield
  Director, Field Services
• Tim Darnell
  Director, MSDH Field Services
• Renia Dotson, MD, MPH
  Director, Center for Public Health Transformation
• Sharon Dowdy
  Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer
• Daniel Edney, MD, FACP, FASAM
  State Health Officer
• Donald C. Faucett, MD
  Health Officer, Central Public Health Region
• Donald Franklin, MS
  Director, Tuberculosis Control
• Jennifer Fulcher, LSW, MS
  Director, Communicable Diseases
• Lester Herrington, P.E., BCEE, CPM
  Director, Office of Environmental Health
• Kendra Johnson, MPH
  Director, Office of Communicable Diseases
• Nikki Johnson, Dr.PH, MPH
  Director, Office of Health Equity
• Kris Adcock, MSW, CPM
  Senior Deputy
• Theresa Kittle, MPH
  Director, Office of Epidemiology
• Melissa Parker, CPM
  Assistant Senior Deputy
• Meg Pearson, Pharm. D.
  Director, State Public Health Pharmacy
• Victor D. Sutton, Ph.D., MPPA
  Chief of Community Health and Clinical Services
• Kathryn Taylor, MD
  State Epidemiologist
• Crystal L. Tate, MD
  Northern Regional Health Officer
• Justin Turner, MD
  Chief Medical Officer
• Daphne Ware, Ph.D.
  Director, Public Health Laboratory
• AnnaLyn Whitt, DHA, MPH, LMSW
  Director, Office of Health Services
• Dorthy K. Young, PhD, MHSA
  Chief Health Data, Operations & Research Officer
  Director, Office of Procurement

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