Rate My Professor Jacklyn Jackson

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.