Jessica Boyd

 
 

Board Member

President and Chief Executive Officer, Unity Health Care

Dr. Jessica Henderson Boyd is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Unity Health Care. She has a wealth of leadership experience in the delivery of health care to medically underserved communities.  Prior to joining Unity as its Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Boyd served as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. and a medical strategist at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She also previously served as CMO at Baltimore Medical Systems, a large Federally Qualified Health (FQHC) in Baltimore, Maryland and is a practicing pediatrician.  Dr. Boyd received her Master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health, her Doctorate in Medicine and Master’s degree in Biology and Biomedical Science from Washington University School of Medicine, and her Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

Unity Health Care is the largest network of community health centers in Washington, D.C. Unity provides a full-range of health and human services to meet the needs of our communities through a network of over 20 traditional and non-traditional health sites and a mobile medical outreach vehicle. Our team of compassionate and multicultural health professionals place Unity values into action every day to bring whole-person care and wellness to over 100,000 patients through over 400,000 visits annually. Deeply rooted in the District’s neighborhoods for 35 years, Unity strives to promote healthier communities through compassion and comprehensive primary and specialty health care and wrap-around services, regardless of ability to pay.