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John Jackson

Dr. John W Jackson is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Jackson earned his ScD in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2013 with a concentration in psychiatric epidemiology. From 2011 to 2014, he trained in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a predoctoral trainee and postdoctoral research fellow, where his work focused on the safety and utilization of antipsychotic medications, as well as methods for comparative effectiveness research. Dr. Jackson current research focuses on understanding and reducing the excess morbidity and mortality in patients with mental illness, and uses state-of-the-art methods to provide insight about the effectiveness of potential interventions.