Janhavi (Jan) Bonville

Jan is a healthcare strategy and policy consultant, former healthcare executive, and nonprofit board leader and patient empowerment and disabilities inclusion advocate with almost three decades of experience across all sectors of healthcare. Living with a chronic healthcare condition and disability for over 20 years and its associated challenges, she uses her problem solving, writing and business skills to address disability inclusion.

She was a former leader at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was responsible for strategic and operational initiatives including new research, educational and clinical programs and centers, overall strategic planning, and partnership development. She developed the first chief accessibility and disability inclusion role at UC, working with leadership to make a case for this, and worked across the UC system to develop a framework and approaches for improving inclusion of students with disabilities. She worked at the former United Behavioral Health where was responsible for product development with a focus on online behavioral health products for marginalized populations. She is on the Board of Trustees of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Northern California, the San Francisco Mayor’s Council for Disability, and the Board of the Bay Area Outdoor and Recreation Programs. She is also a writer and speaker, writing for the National MS Society on topics related to disability, health and society, and in the travel and tourism sector, pushing destinations to be more inclusive to travelers with disabilities.