Thomas Farley

Thomas A. "Tom" Farley is an American pediatrician who served as Commissioner of Health of the City of New York and Commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Health.

Early life and education The sixth of eight children of a patent lawyer father and full-time parent mother, Farley grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Haverford College in 1977, and later received his MD and MPH degrees from Tulane University. During part of 2014, he served as the Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy at Hunter College. He served as the CEO of the nonprofit organization Public Good Projects. His Prescription for a Healthy Nation: A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World was also published in 2005 and advocates making small changes in the social environment, such as making healthy foods more accessible than junk or snack foods, will result in better health for the community. PFC's CEO Andrei Doroshin would be described by the city as "unprofessional". Philly Fighting COVID was able to test only 20,000 people and vaccinate only 6,800 people. Farley discontinued the relationship following publication of PFC's change to for profit status.

On May 13, 2021, Mayor Kenney requested Farley's resignation as health commissioner after the public learned that Farley had ordered the destruction in 2017 of the human bodies of victims of the city's 1985 MOVE bombing rather than returning the human remains to the families and without notifying the family of his actions.

In 2021, Farley assumed the position in Washington D.C. as the Senior Deputy Director of the Community Health Administration.