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Cheryl A. Boyce, M.S.

Ms. Boyce is the executive director of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health.  The Commission focuses on improving the health status of African Americans, Latino/Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans. Ms. Boyce has held a number of progressively responsible positions in the health and human services field, including coordinator of the Governor’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health—Ohio; program director and associate program director for Advocacy and Protective Services, Inc.; and  employment in the Ohio Departments of Health, Mental Retardation and Rehabilitation Services Commission.

Ms. Boyce remains very active in such professional and civic organizations as the community advisory committee for The Ohio State University School of Public Health, the American Public Health Association, the Commonwealth Fund National Advisory Panel for Reducing and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, and the National Cancer Institute Progress Review Group for Health Disparities. She is the chairperson of the National Association of State Offices of Minority Health. Ms. Boyce earned a B.S. in Health Education from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and an M.S. in Health Planning and Administration from the University of Cincinnati.  In 2004, she was an ELPH (Emerging Leaders in Public Health) Kellogg Fellow at the University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, at Chapel Hill.