Jane Boggess, 57; Led California Office of Family Planning
Jane Boggess, 57, an advocate for easily accessible and low-cost reproductive health services for men and women, died Jan. 18 of a stroke that she suffered at her Oakland office.
From 1993 to 1998, Boggess served as chief of the California Office of Family Planning. There she earned national recognition in public health circles for launching the state’s successful FAMILY P.A.C.T. program, which provides free and low-cost family planning health services to low-income residents.
She recently won national recognition for her efforts to make the “morning-after” contraceptive pill available without advance prescriptions at hundreds of pharmacies throughout the state.
A native of Upland, Boggess earned her undergraduate degree and a doctorate in anthropology from UC Berkeley. She spent four years studying monkeys in the Himalayas.
Boggess began her career working as an assistant director of the Health Officers Assn. of California. She later became director of Women’s Health for San Bernardino County, where she was involved in reproductive health-care issues.
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