Jessie R. Taylor, MD, MPH

District Health Officer
Public Health District 2

Phone: 662-841-9015

Background

Dr. Taylor received her M.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, and served previously as a District Health Office under the Mississippi State Board of Health from 1972 to 1978. Dr. Taylor subsequently worked in Emergency Medicine for 18 years, during which she taught and directed advanced cardiac life support courses in the state, served on the State Emergency Cardiac Care Committee for the American Heart Association, and acted as interim director for the northeast Mississippi EMS district. She founded and directed Med Serve, a family and occupational medicine clinic in Tupelo, and was a clinical instructor in Family Medicine for the University of Mississippi Medical School from 1993 to 2000. She brings a varied background in administration, clinical practice, public and private health, and medical mission experience to MSDH.