Dr Jacklyn Jackson is an early career researcher, implementation scientist and dietitian. Dr Jackson is interested in undertaking public health research to reduce risk factors for chronic diseases in the population and generating high quality evidence to inform public health practice and policy decisions.
Dr Jackson was awarded her PhD (Investigating the role of inorganic dietary nitrate in the context of overall diet quality for cardiovascular disease prevention) by publication in 2019. As part of her PhD thesis, she published 2 reviews (1 literature review, and 1 systematic review with meta-analysis) and 4 longitudinal observation studies of large cohorts (including the Nurses Health Study and Australian Longitudinal Study for Womens’ Health). Dr Jackson’s thesis made important contributions to the understanding of the long-term impacts of dietary nitrate intakes on cardiovascular disease outcomes and was the first to explore this relationship within the context of whole diets to improve the real-world translation of this field of research.
As a postdoctoral researcher, Dr Jackson is embedded within the Hunter New England Population Health Research Group.
As part of this role, her research has primarily consisted of identifying effective and scalable interventions to support the implementation of evidence-based programs and practices in community and health care settings. As such, her research track record includes the: i) conduct of high-quality systematic reviews to support practice and policy; and ii) the planning and evaluation of population level implementation trials to improve the health behaviours of families and young children (0-5 years).
