Ana Jackson, Ph.D.

Ana Jackson, Ph.D. (she/her) is chief evaluation and data strategy director at Blue Shield of California Foundation. An accomplished leader with a strong focus on health equity, she leads the Foundation’s evaluation and data strategy, centered around assuring that the Foundation and its grantees and stakeholders have access to the information they need to support systems change, advance equity, and assess learning and progress to improve health and end domestic violence.

Before joining the Foundation, Ana spent 11 years at the Center for Evaluation and Analytics at the Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute. As director of evaluation, she led comprehensive program evaluations, applying a broad range of qualitative and quantitative methods. Her team was essential to continuous improvement efforts for Kaiser Permanente’s 12 million members.

Ana has taught courses at University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University and held research positions spanning the areas of education, public policy, and health care. She was the founding director of the YWCA Racial Justice Program at UC Berkeley, where she established an anti-racism seminar, developed a curriculum for teens to teach anti-racism to younger students, and established several initiatives to combat systemic racism. She also led tobacco prevention and control efforts with the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley and later became the lead evaluator for the city of Berkeley's tobacco prevention and control program.

Her community service has included coaching and leading youth recreation, leading youth mentorship programs, and teaching evaluation methods to youth of color. She was the former chair of the Alameda County Public Health Commission and a board member at the West Berkeley Foundation, and she received a Koshland Civic Leadership Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Ana currently serves as president of the board at Stiles Hall.

Jackson holds a bachelor's degree in social welfare and a Ph.D./Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley. 

Email: ana.jackson [at] blueshieldcafoundation.org