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Boston Children's Hospital relies on two leadership groups, the Board Committee for Community Health and the Community Advisory Board, to assist the Office of Community Health in implementing the hospital's community mission.

Board Committee for Community Health

Winston Henderson (chair), Vice President, General Counsel, Clear Scientific Inc.

  • Dick Argys, Executive Vice President, Hospital Chief Operating Officer, Chief Culture Officer
  • Kevin Churchwell, MD, Boston Children's President and CEO
  • Ruth Ellen Fitch, JD, Attorney
  • Margaret Fry, MD, President and CEO, Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Boston Children’s Hospital (PPOC)
  • Robert Gittens, Executive Director, Bridges Homeward
  • Steven Gortmaker, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Jana Karp, Med, Executive Director, Boston Youth Sanctuary
  • Celeste Lee, Brandeis University
  • Shari Nethersole, MD, Boston Children's Vice President, Community Health and Engagement (ex-officio)
  • Alexandra Oliver-Dávila, Executive Director, Sociedad Latina
  • Wendy A. Watson, formerly of State Street Bank
  • Michael Widmer, formerly of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation
  • Lisa S. Wieland, President, National Grid New England

Community Advisory Board

Alexandra Oliver-Dávila (chair), Executive Director, Sociedad Latina

Yi Chin Chen (vice chair), Friends of the Children-Boston

  • Sage Carbone, Fenway Community Development Corporation
  • Jill Carter, EdM, MA, Boston Public Schools
  • Patricia Flaherty, Mission Hill Resident
  • Carol Miranda, JP Tree of Life: Arbol de Vida
  • Shari Nethersole, MD, Boston Children's Vice President, Community Health and Engagement (ex-officio)
  • Andrea Swain, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston
  • May Vaughn, Roxbury resident and Executive Director of Girls’ LEAP
  • Jeremiah Woodberry, Child and Adolescent Health Division (CAHD), Boston Public Health Commission