Prof Debra Jackson
Takeda Chair in Global Child Health
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
United Kingdom
Debra Jackson joined LSHTM as the Takeda Chair in Global Child Health and Deputy Director of the MARCH Centre in August 2020. Previously she held the position of Senior Health Advisor and Chief of the Implementation Research and Delivery Science Unit, Health Section, UNICEF, which focuses on maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programme research, data and digital health. She also holds an appointment as an Extraordinary Professor in Public Health at the School of Public Health (SoPH), University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. She has qualifications in nursing, public health, epidemiology and biostatistics. Her recent research has focused on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, infant feeding, birth registration, maternal and newborn health and community health workers. She has over 155 peer-reviewed publications.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
Basic Epidemiology 2020-2022
Current Issues in Maternal and Perinatal Health 2021-2023
Epidemiology DL 2023
Programme Monitoring and Implementation Research (MO) 2023
Research
Implementation Research
Health Systems Research
Maternal Health
Newborn Health
Perinatal Health
Child Health
Child Development
Adolescent Health
HIV/AIDS
Community Health
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
Digital Health
Infant and Young Child Nutrition
Community Health Workers
Monitoring & Evaluation
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Data
Health Management Information Systems
Health Information Systems
MPDSR
Quality of Care/Quality Improvement
COVID-19 Collateral Impacts