Associate Professor (Emerita), Department of Public Health Sciences,
Dalla Lana School of Public Health,
Department of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences,
University of Toronto

Dr. Jackson is Associate Professor Emerita in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She was the Director of the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Toronto from 2001 to 2009 which was a WHO Collaborating Centre in Health Promotion and she taught courses in health promotion and global health.

She specializes in participatory planning, research and evaluation. Her extensive community experience and contacts have provided applied research opportunities, particularly in youth engagement, mental health promotion, early parenting, and circumpolar Indigenous health promotion. She has eleven years accumulated experience working in the public sector for the Ontario Ministry of Health (provincial level) and the Toronto Department of Public Health (local level) and about 20 years of experience in conducting research as a partnership between academic and community-based organizations.
She has been President of the Ontario Public Health Association, and is currently Chair of the Canadian Public Health Association. She has been invited to speak on health promotion topics in various parts of Canada, USA, Bangkok, Taiwan, Jakarta, Australia, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Singapore, Germany and Brazil.

Some of her recent projects are:  Connected Communities in a time of Physical Distancing: Community-led responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in City of Toronto, funded by Toronto COVID Action Initiative and School of Cities, led by Blake Poland and in partnership with Centre for Connected Communities; Healthy & Resilient Cities: Exploring a Connected Community Approach Literature Review ; Improving Cancer Screening Among First Nations and Metis in Ontario – Co-applicant on CIHR-funded project led by Jill Tinmouth at CCO;  The Role of Creative Arts in the Health of Street-Involved Female-Identifying Youth – Intervention research funded by Women’s XChange. She was Editor In Chief for the Global Health Promotion journal for ten years (2009 – 2019, IUHPE Montreal).

She has authored more than 60 publications (PubMed, December 2022) and her profile record at google scholar counts 663 citations with h-index 14 (15/12/2022).