Consumer Member - District of Columbia Health Boards and Commissions
Consumer members play an important role by serving on District health boards and commissions, particularly health professions licensing, occupational licensing, and non-licensing health boards.
Please review the requirements listed below, and apply if you are interested in a mayoral appointment to serve as a consumer or public member position for a health board or commission.
LACTATION COMMISSION
- Be a resident of the District at the time of appointment and while serving;
PERINATAL AND INFANT HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Be a resident of the District at the time of appointment and while serving;
- Have children under the age of 5 years
HEALTH OCCUPATION BOARDS
In addition, consumer members for the Health Occupation Boards listed below are subject to the following requirements:
- Be at least 18 years old;
- Not be a health professional or in training to become a health professional;
- Not have a household member who is a health professional or is in training to become a health professional;
- Not own, operate, or be employed in or have a household member who owns, operates, or is employed in a business which has as its primary purpose the sale of goods or services to health professionals or health-care facilities.
Within these requirements, the term "health professional" means any person licensed or permitted to practice a health occupation in the District that is regulated by any of the District health occupation boards. The term “household member” means a relative, by blood, marriage, or domestic partnership, or a ward of an individual who shares the individual’s actual residence.
HEALTH OCCUPATION BOARDS
- Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
- Board of Chiropractic
- Board of Dentistry
- Board of Dietetics & Nutrition
- Board of Long-Term Care Administration
- Board of Marriage and Family Therapy
- Board of Massage Therapy
- Board of Medicine
- Board of Nursing
- Board of Occupational Therapy
- Board of Optometry
- Board of Pharmacy
- Board of Physical Therapy
- Board of Podiatry
- Board of Professional Counseling
- Board of Psychology
- Board of Respiratory Care
- Board of Social Work
- Board of Veterinary Medicine
If you are interested in an appointment to one of these DC boards and commissions, please complete the appointment application. A member of our team will review all applications and contact select candidates to move forward.