Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator

Mike Paulus, MS (email Mike)

Mike is the Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator for the Brazos County Health Department. He concurrently serves as a deputy sheriff commissioned by the Brazos County Sheriff's Office and as a paramedic for St. Joseph Emergency Medical Services. He is a professional law enforcement and EMS trainer/instructor who was employed by the Texas A&M University System (TEEX Law Enforcement and Security Training Division) and as a private consultant prior to accepting the EPR coordinator position with Brazos County. He has trained counter-terrorism operatives from Poland, Thailand, Philippines, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and numerous federal, state and local agencies within the United States. He holds a bachelor of science in biomedical science from Texas A&M University and a master of science in criminology (criminal justice) from the University of Cincinnati.

His current duties include creating plans for the mitigation of a bioterrorism event in Brazos county. In addition, through grant funding, he is responsible for improving the local infrastructure to be able to better respond to an incident of biological terrorism.


Assistant Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator
Epidemiologist

Kate Jackson, MPH(email Kate)

Kate is the Assistant Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator and Epidemiologist at the Brazos County Health Department. She also serves as a reserve deputy sheriff commissioned by the Brazos County Sheriff's Office. For the past four years she has worked with the health department in the areas of emergency planning for bioterrorism events, response to bioterrorism, chemical and radiological events, and the early detection of disease outbreaks. Her current project is the development and implementation of an automated and web-based disease reporting system as well as a syndromic disease surveillance system in Brazos County. In addition to her other duties, she serves as the intelligence officer on the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office’s Chemical and Biological response team. She holds a bachelors degree in economics and international studies from Texas A&M University, a certificate in advanced international affairs from the Bush School, Texas A&M University, and a masters in public health from the School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center.