Katherine Wells, director of public health for the City of Lubbock, has played a key role in managing the COVID-19 pandemic.Â
âItâs just been a journey. I think itâs a journey for everybody,â she said. âI mean, everybodyâs going to have their COVID stories for their whole life; weâll be talking to our grandkids saying, âBack in 2020 when everything shut down.ââ
Wells has been with the Lubbock health department for six years and previously worked at the National Institute of Health and the Department of State Health Services in Austin. Wells said she moved to Lubbock to look at rebuilding Lubbockâs public health system, which had been significantly cut back in 2012.Â