The United States Department of Health and Human Services gave her an award for her work in pediatric AIDS/HIV treatment.
From its inception in 1978, the program provided screening tests, immunizations, health education and followup care at no cost for children who were medically in-need living in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark.
[9] While director, she also helped to coordinate the Children's AIDS program (CHAP) at United Hospitals Medical Center in Newark.
[8][10][11] She developed an intensive month-long training program in pediatric AIDS, drawing doctors and nurses internationally from countries including Cuba, South America, Europe, Myanmar, Africa and the former Soviet Union.
[8] In 1989, as committee chair, she published the report Generations in Jeopardy: Responding to HIV in Children, Women and Adolescents in New Jersey.
[13] In 1995, she co-edited Children, Families, and HIV/AIDS: Psychosocial and Therapeutic Issues, outlining a family-centered approach to AIDS care.
[21][22] In 2014, Boland founded the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn program, a collaboration between the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Hawaii State Department of Education where nurses and nurse practitioners are embedded in the public schools in order to address any unmet health needs that they find among the students.