2016 Alumni Medalist Thomas Campbell Jackson ’98PH
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 2016-10-31

Thomas is a private investor and a film and theater producer. He first came to Columbia as a high school student in the Science Honors Program. He graduated from the Mailman School of Public Health with an MPH in Health Policy and Management. After graduating, he was appointed director of the City of New York’s Employee Health Benefits Program, which provides health coverage for all municipal employees, retirees and dependents. Since then he has been active in health policy, health economics and insurance with a variety of think tanks and businesses. He is a longtime member of the board of Mailman’s Alumni Association, where he helped to reinvigorate fundraising for the Fund for Public Health Leadership, and has served as its president. Since 2009, he has simultaneously served on Mailman’s Board of Overseers. He has been active with the University in a variety of other ways, including donating specialized microscopy equipment for Mailman’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences. He was part of the CAA’s multi-year 2017 Strategic Planning Task Force. He has also been a member of the Columbia Presbyterian Health Sciences Advisory Council. He has produced a number of documentary and feature films about science, health-related issues and more. His wife Penny is a graduate of Barnard, where she supports a program in creative writing, and Teacher’s College.