About
Dr. Kristopher Jackson, PhD, MPH, AGACNP-BC, FAANP is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Nursing & Health Sciences. He completed an NIMH-funded T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. He also holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Jackson is a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP).
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.