Dr. Louise Jackson is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham. She is Co-Head of Education for the Institute of Applied Health Research which involves overseeing education provision across all postgraduate and undergraduate programmes for the Institute. Louise has broad range of methodological experience and expertise.

She is interested in applied research that improves public health and healthcare services. Louise has specific expertise in relation to: economic evaluation; outcome and cost measurement; and qualitative evidence synthesis and reporting. She works closely with stakeholders and is interested in mixed methods research that aims to meet the needs of decision-makers, particularly in public health.

Louise Jackson has been involved in a large number of NIHR funded projects. For example, she is Co- Lead for the CONNECT study which aims to understand the impact of remote consultations in sexual reproductive health on health inequalities. She was also involved in the MESARCH project which was concerned with evaluating Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs)  across England in terms of benefit and costs to service users and survivors of sexual assault and rape. 

The research of Dr Jackson has had international and national impact. She has presented her research at national and international conferences as well as publishing in leading academic journals. Louise Jackson contributes to teaching for the University’s Health Economics programmes and more broadly across the Institute of Applied Health Research and College of Medical and Dental Sciences.