Section

• Infectious Disease

Education and Training

• M.D. - University of Missouri - Kansas City
• Residency - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Fellowship - Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Research Focus

• Vaccine implementation, judicious use of antibiotics and prevention of antibiotic resistant infections.
• Jackson focuses on describing the epidemiology of vaccine preventable infections and studying new vaccines through work with the NIH-based Vaccine and Education Unit at CMH and the CDC-sponsored New Vaccine Surveillance Network. She is a member of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee and the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, where her work focuses on educating practitioners in strategies to reduce vaccine hesitancy and improve vaccine coverage for pediatric and adult vaccines. Her work on reducing injudicious antibiotic use, and optimizing treatment of infections, is facilitated by work through the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at CMH.