Kristopher Jackson PhD, MPH, ACNPC-AG, CNE, FAANP
Dr. Kristopher Jackson, PhD, MPH, ACNPC-AG, CNE, FAANP is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Nursing & Health Sciences. He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. He is a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Dr. Jackson’s program of research is centered on HIV prevention and sexual health, particularly among sexual and gender minority community members. His innovative approach includes the use of web-scraping techniques to design and curate robust data sets aimed at addressing pressing public health challenges. Additionally, he specializes in survey research and recruitment methodologies tailored to reach hidden and/or stigmatized populations with the overarching goal of the understanding barriers to care and prevention. Current projects investigate the healthcare needs of underserved LGBTQIA+ populations, including sex workers, with a focus on how societal norms around masculinity, stigma related to sexual behaviors, and other individual factors affect the uptake of HIV prevention strategies such as PrEP, as well as substance use in commercial sexual contexts. Dr. Jackson’s scholarship has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed Nursing and Public Health Journals. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (JAANP). Dr. Jackson maintains an active clinical practice as a critical care and hospital medicine provider at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, CA and South Shore Medical Center in Weymouth, MA.