Board of Health

The Nassau County Charter created the Nassau County Board of Health and the Nassau County Department of Health in 1938.

The Board of Health consists of five members, two of whom must be physicians. The County Executive recommends them to the Nassau County Legislature for five-year terms to enforce the public health law as well as New York State and local sanitary codes. The duties of the Board of Health include the power to:

• Prescribe the duties and direct the Commissioner of the Department of Health.
• Make and publish orders and regulations for the preservation of life and health.
• Make orders and regulations for the supervision of nuisances and other matters detrimental to the public health in special or individual cases. Restrain, by injunction, violators of its orders and regulations.
• Issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses, and administer oaths and complete testimony.
• Issue warrants to peace officers to enforce the law.
• Prescribe and impose penalties for violation of, or failure to comply with, its orders or regulations or any of the regulations of the state sanitary code.

Members of the Board of Health are:

Maria Torroella Carney, M.D., F.A.C.P. Commissioner of Health Secretary to the Board of Health

Norma J. Henriksen Chair

Diana Coleman Vice Chair

Ellen J. Braunstein, M.D.

Donna Kass

The Board of Health meets on a monthly basis. Public notice of the time and place of the meeting is through a press release one week prior to the meeting. Public comments are welcome after completion of the agenda items.

Inquiries to the Nassau County Board of Health can be addressed to:

Norma J. Henriksen, Chair

Nassau County Board of Health

C/o Nassau County Department of Health

106 Charles Lindbergh Blvd, Uniondale NY 11553
or

e-mail: Nassau County Board of Health