Rate My Professor Jacklyn Jackson

Dr Jacklyn Jackson serves as a Senior Research Assistant (Post-Doctoral Researcher) in the School of Medicine and Public Health within the Faculty of Health and Medicine at the University of Newcastle, Australia. An early career researcher, implementation scientist, and accredited practising dietitian, she holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Nutrition and Dietetics (2019, by publication) and a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours Class I) from the University of Newcastle. Her PhD candidature spanned from June 2015 to August 2019, during which she also served as a Casual Academic in the School of Health Sciences' Nutrition and Dietetics program from July 2017 to December 2018. Jackson's doctoral research examined the role of inorganic nitrate and nitrite in cardiovascular disease risk factors, incorporating analyses from large prospective cohorts such as the Nurses' Health Study and a 15-year follow-up of middle-aged Australian women. Since June 2019, she has been embedded with the Hunter New England Population Health Research Group, focusing on translational public health research.

Dr Jackson's research specializations include public health nutrition to reduce chronic disease risk factors, with a particular emphasis on implementation science for scalable interventions targeting health behaviors in families and young children (0-5 years). Her academic interests encompass dietary nitrate for cardiovascular prevention, nutrition and physical activity promotion, obesity prevention, and outdoor free play in early childhood education and care settings. Key publications feature the Cochrane systematic review 'Healthy eating interventions delivered in early childhood education and care settings for improving the diet of children aged six months to six years' (2023), 'The role of inorganic nitrate and nitrite in cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of human evidence' (2018), 'Vegetable Nitrate Intakes Are Associated with Reduced Self-Reported Cardiovascular-Related Complications within a Representative Sample of Middle-Aged Australian Women, Prospectively Followed up for 15 Years' (2019), 'Dietary nitrate consumption and risk of CHD in women from the Nurses' Health Study' (2019), and recent works on mHealth interventions like the Healthy Beginnings for Hunter New England Kids program scale-up (2025) and the Click & Crunch cluster randomized trial for high-school canteens (2024). Her scholarship has accumulated over 340 citations.