Debra Jackson, PhD, AO, RN, SFHEA, FACN, is Professor of Nursing at the University of Sydney Australia, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN). Prior to that, she was Editor of Journal of Clinical Nursing for a decade.

Professor Jackson is a distinguished nurse scientist and scholar whose career has spanned clinical practice, academic work, research, and scholarship. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). In 2015 Debra was the first nurse appointed to a Principal Fellowship of the NIHR-funded Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, awarded in recognition of sustained contribution to generating knowledge to enhance the care of NHS patients.

In 2019, Professor Jackson’s work was honored when she was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medical education in the field of nursing practice and research as an academic and author. In 2020 she was named as Australia's leading nurse researcher by The Australian newspaper in their list of Australia's Top 250 Researchers, based on highest number of citations from papers published in the last five years in the 20 top journals in the field.

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