Half the BACH Steering Committee positions are filled at each year’s annual meeting. The following individuals were elected or re-elected at the 2012 meeting and will begin serving their two-year terms on January 1, 2013. Three are new to the Committee: Magnolia Contreras, Director of Community Benefits at Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Corey Yarbrough, Executive […]
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Meet the Steering Committee Members Elected at the 2012 BACH Annual Meeting
Posted: November 16th, 2012
BACH 2012 Annual Meeting Focuses on “Envisioning a Healthy Boston”
Posted: November 16th, 2012
On the rainy evening of November 7, sixty windswept stalwart community members gathered at the Dorchester House for our 2012 Annual Meeting. After an overview of the past year and a delicious Vietnamese dinner, the group worked on creating a vision of a Healthy Boston. The BACH Health Planning and Improvement Committee is now crafting […]
More »Meet BACH Steering Committee Member Kay Walsh
Posted: June 4th, 2012
Kay Walsh has been working in public health for close to 40 years. Initially trained as a social worker, she has experience working directly with youth and alongside the police. Kay also considers herself a “grassroots fool” because of her community organizing experience with Boston Against Drugs. A first generation Irishwoman, she personally identifies the […]
More »Check out the smoke free murals!
Posted: March 30th, 2012
BACH coalition youth picked up paint brushes and created dynamic murals to mark the Boston Housing Authority’s (BHA) move to become smoke free in September 2012. Using the theme “Celebrate Tobacco-Free Living,” young people from Charlestown, Dorchester and South Boston spent their February school vacation week designing and painting the murals for local BHA developments. […]
More »BACH Distributes Almost Half a Million Dollars in Funding
Posted: March 8th, 2012
The Boston Alliance for Community Health (BACH) is pleased to announce it was able to distribute over $450,000 to local community coalitions during 2011. These funds came from two primary sources: Boston’s teaching hospitals and the Boston Public Health Commission. Money for Health Planning When scheduling capital expenditures such as a new building or major […]
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