Michael Boudreau, Carol Bradford, Kelli Calo, Alexandra DePalo, Rajit Gupta, Beth Hallal, Shaun McAuliffe, Scott Moles and Michael Hugo Massachusetts has a broken local public health system. We know, because we are all public health officials, government officials and health directors who struggle daily as a result of under-resourced and underfunded health departments and boards of health in MetroWest. We have all been on the front lines throughout the pandemic and for many years prior to COVID.