Bonnie Blanchfield, CPA, SM, ScD

Bonnie Blanchfield is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard Medical School. She is also the Faculty Director for both the Health Management Field of Study and the Generalist Field of Study for MPH students and teaches in both programs. She is Adjunct Professor at the Dartmouth Institute (TDI) and teaches in a hybrid program at London School of Economics. In addition to her academic roles, she is the Senior Advisor at Massachusetts General Brigham Springboard Innovation Studio.  

Bonnie Blanchfield is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard Medical School. She is also the Faculty Director for both the Health Management Field of Study and the Generalist Field of Study for MPH students and teaches in both programs. She is Adjunct Professor at the Dartmouth Institute (TDI) and teaches in a hybrid program at London School of Economics. In addition to her academic roles, she is the Senior Advisor at Massachusetts General Brigham Springboard Innovation Studio. 

Bonnie’s 40+ year career started in public accounting at Peat Marwick and then moved to corporate management before she redirected her focus to health care. Bonnie’s roles in health care have included Senior Scientist at the Center for Innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Mongan Institute for Health Policy and the Institute for Technology Assessment at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Project Hope’s Center for Health Affairs. In addition, Bonnie was the Research Director at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program and Lead, Value and Outcomes at Alphabet’s Verily Life Sciences. Bonnie has also served as acting CFO for several small start-up companies including Iora Health and was the Director of Finance for Greybird Ventures, LLC.

Bonnie combines her accounting and corporate finance expertise with research and evaluation methods to conduct policy relevant research and program 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 their impact on value-based care strategies. Bonnie holds a SM and ScD from Harvard School of Public Health and a BBA from Siena College.