Rate My Professor Jacklyn Jackson

Dr Jacklyn Jackson is an early career researcher, implementation scientist, and dietitian within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Nutrition and Dietetics, awarded in 2019 by publication, and a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours), both from the University of Newcastle. Her career includes roles as a PhD student in the School of Health Sciences from June 2015 to August 2019, Casual Academic in Nutrition and Dietetics from July 2017 to December 2018, where she lectured, tutored, and marked courses such as NUDI 3310 Public Health Nutrition and NUDI 2110 Community Nutrition Practice. Since June 2019, she has served as Senior Research Assistant (Post-Doctoral Researcher) in the School of Medicine and Public Health, embedded with the Hunter New England Population Health Research Group, and continues as Casual Academic in the School of Health Sciences.

Dr Jackson specializes in public health nutrition, with research interests in implementation science, health promotion, child health, population health, and evidence translation. Her doctoral work examined inorganic dietary nitrate within whole diets for cardiovascular disease prevention, including long-term impacts. She identifies effective, scalable interventions through systematic reviews supporting practice and policy, and plans population-level implementation trials to enhance health behaviors in families and young children aged 0-5 years. Notable publications include 'The role of inorganic nitrate and nitrite in cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of human evidence' (Nutrition Reviews, 2018), 'Healthy eating interventions delivered in early childhood education and care settings for improving the diet of children aged six months to six years' (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2023), 'Is higher consumption of animal flesh foods associated with better iron status among adults in developed countries? A systematic review' (Nutrients, 2016), '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' (Nutrients, 2019), and 'Better diet quality scores are associated with a lower risk of hypertension and non-fatal CVD in middle-aged Australian women over 15 years of follow-up' (Public Health Nutrition, 2020). Her contributions advance evidence-based strategies in community and healthcare settings for chronic disease prevention.