About me
Cheryl Sbarra is the Executive Director and Senior Staff Attorney for the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards (MAHB). She provides technical assistance, policy guidance and legal education to the 351 local boards of health in Massachusetts. Sbarra assists them and other municipal officials and attorneys in developing, enacting and enforcing local regulations, ordinances and bylaws.
Sbarra heads a staff of legal consultants and policy experts for MAHB who provide legal education and technical assistance to local boards of health relative to chronic disease prevention policies, cross jurisdictional sharing of public health services, tobacco control and cannabis policies, opioid abatement settlement strategies, and strategies to increase the capacity of local boards of health and health departments across the state.
She has presented at numerous state and national conferences on public health legal issues including but not limited to tobacco control, cannabis and synthetic CBD and THC regulations, enforcement strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic, cross jurisdictional sharing, and general legal authority and enforcement issues for local boards of health.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor Degree from Suffolk University Law School.
