Senior Scientist, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Blanchfield ‘s 40-plus year career started in public accounting at Peat Marwick and then moved to banking corporate management before she redirected her focus to health care.

At Springboard, Bonnie advises the senior Springboard team and leads all impact and evaluation assessments of the solutions generated by innovators as well as mentoring and advising innovation teams.

In addition to her role at Springboard, her other academic and business roles have included the Mongan Institute for Health Policy and the Institute for Technology Assessment at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Center for Healthcare Innovation and Division of General Medicine, Project Hope’s Center for Health Affairs, the Research Director at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, Director of Finance GreyBird Venture Associates and Lead, Value and Outcomes at Alphabet’s (Google) Verily Life Sciences. Bonnie has also served as acting CFO for several small start-up companies including Iora Health.

Bonnie continues to combine her accounting and finance expertise with research and evaluation methods to conduct evaluation looking at health care costs, health care delivery redesign, patient safety, and health care innovations. Her primary interest is evaluating innovation and care redesign and the impact on value-based care strategies. Bonnie has been on the executive advisory board for home-based care strategies at Mass General Brigham (MGB) and continues to advise in this space.

Bonnie is Faculty Director for the Health Management and On-line Generalist MPH programs at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Adjunct Faculty at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy where she also teaches Financial Analysis in Health Care and Health Services Administration and Strategy. She teaches an elective course, Health Services Administration at the London School of Economics.

Bonnie received a BBA in accounting from Siena College and both a SM and Sc.D. from the Harvard School of Public Health in Department of Health Policy and Management.

Contact Bonnie at bblanchfield@bwh.harvard.edu.