Dr. Mary Currier receives national service award

• Dr. Mary Currier, Mississippi’s state health officer, has received the 2016 Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service by the American Medical Association. The Mississippi State Medical Association nominated Currier late last year to highlight her work to protect the public by requiring immunizations for school attendance. Currier, who in January was appointed to her second term as state health officer, has served in numerous capacities with the state since 1984, including two terms as state epidemiologist. A graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Currier has a master’s degree and preventive medicine residency training in public health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Currier's bachelor's degree is from Rice University, and she attended Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.