Mission and Objectives
Massachusetts Boards of Health MAHB’s mission is to assist and support boards of health in meeting their statutory and service responsibilities, through programs of education, technical assistance, and resource development. Address: 56 Taunton St. Plainville MA 02762
MAHB Staff
Cheryl Sbarra JD
Senior Staff Attorney and Director of Policy and Law
Elaine La Coursiere
FINANCIAL MANAGER
Chrystal LaPine
REGION 5 HMCC COORDINATOR
Officers
Marcia Testa MPH, PhD.
PRESIDENT
Member Board: Vice Chair, Wellesley Board of Health; Executive COmmittee Member since 2006
Current Positions: Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics, Co-Director MPH Program on Quantitative Methods, Co-Director Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation and Practice *EPREP) Program, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Chairman, Phase V Technologies, Inc.
Past Positions: Governing Councilor and Past Chair, Statistics Section, American Public Health Association
Marcia Rising
TREASURER
Member Board: Stow Board of Health; Executive Committee Member since 1987
Executive Committee – Members
Joan M. Jacobs
Executive Committee Member since 1997
Christopher Quinn M.D.
Executive Committee Member since 2004; Past President MAHB
Past Member Sherborn Board of Health
Current Positions: Sturdy Memorial Hospital Occupational Services, Attleboro Health Officer
John Dougherty
Executive Committee Member since 2012
Edward Cosgrove PhD
Executive Committee Member since 2016
Laura Housman MPH
Executive Committee Member since 2016
Framingham Board of Health, Founder, Access Solutions Consulting. Ms Housman holds a Master of Business Administration with honors from Boston University Graduate School of Management, a Master of Public Health with specialization in Health Services from Boston University School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with a minor in Business Administration from Boston University College of Arts and Sciences.
Ron Considine
Executive Committee Member since 2018
Concord Board of Health
1989 – 2016: President and CEO, Health Resources in Action: 2017 – present: Managing Co-Trustee at Susan A. and Donald P. Babson Foundation; Adjunct Faculty, Regis College, Graduate Program in Health Administration-School of Health Sciences
Masters of Social Work and Bachelors of Political Science and Education.
Executive Committee – Associate Members
Peter Connolly M.D.
Current Associate Member
Former Needham Board of Health Member; Executive Committee Member 2003 – 2015
Current Position: Internal Medicine Physician, Needham, MA
Richard Edgehille
Current Associate Member
Past Member, Hanson MA Board of Health and Past Secretary/Clerk MAHB;; Executive Committee Member 2007 – 2015
Mike Hugo J.D.
Current Associate Member
Past Member, Framingham MA Board of Health; Executive Committee Member 2013 – 2018; Past Vice President MAHB
Current Position: Phrase Associates, LLC
David Alper D.P.M.
Current Associate Member
Past Member, Belmont Board of Health; Member of Executive Committee 2017 – 2018
Current Position: Podiatric Medicine Physician;