Professor Debra Jackson AO is Professor of Nursing at the University of Sydney. She is an internationally distinguished nurse scientist and scholar, and her 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 she won 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, Jackson’s work was honoured through her being 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. She has been named as Australia's leading nurse researcher by the Australian newspaper in their list of Australia's Top 250 Research Field Leaders in 2020, 2021 and 2023. Jackson is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN), a leading Q1 nursing journal, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Nursing Inquiry, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, and Journal of Child Health Care. Her work has been translated into Swedish, Danish, French, German and Spanish. More than 26% of her publications are in the top 10% most cited documents worldwide (SciVal 30/7/24).