The Massachusetts Association of Health Boards

A non-profit organization providing local boards of health with education, technical assistance, and resource development.

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. 20 Walnut Street, Suite 110, Wellesley Hills, MA 02481

MAHB Staff

Cheryl Sbarra JD

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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

Christopher Quinn M.D.

VICE-PRESIDENT

Past President MAHB, 2011 – 2017, Past Member Sherborn Board of Health

Current Positions: Sturdy Memorial Hospital Occupational Services, Attleboro Health Officer

Joan M. Jacobs

SECRETARY/CLERK

Executive Committee Member since 1997

Norwood Board of Health

Marcia Rising

TREASURER

Member Board: Stow Board of Health; Executive Committee Member since 1987

Executive Committee – Members

John Dougherty

Executive Committee Member since 2012

Hanover Board of Health, Owner, Briggs Stable

Edward Cosgrove PhD

Executive Committee Member since 2016

Needham Board of Health; Professor of Microbiology at Northeastern and Psychopharmacology at U Mass Boston; former Assistant Commissioner, MDPH

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.

Ray 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.