Christine Jackson

Expertise

Family Intervention and Child Health
Home-Based Prevention Research
Community-Based Research
Health Communication

Biography

Christine Jackson, PhD, has over 20 years of professional experience in community-based health promotion research and evaluation projects. Dr. Jackson's research interests include developing and evaluating parenting strategies for preventing child health risk outcomes, effects of child and adolescent media use practices on health risk outcomes, and application of health communication theory to improve the effectiveness of health promotion interventions. Her research in home-based interventions includes studies on tobacco and alcohol use, obesity, and family mass media practices. She has been principal investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health, including grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Jackson's research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Tobacco Control, and Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

Education

PhD, School of Social Ecology, University of California at Irvine; MA, School of Social Ecology, University of California at Irvine; BA, Psychology, San Diego State University.

Selected Publications

Jackson, C., Brown, J.D., & L'Engle, K.L. (Mar 2007). R-rated movies, bedroom televisions, and initiation of smoking by white and black adolescents. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 161 (3):260-268.

Jackson, C., & Dickinson, D. (January 2006). Enabling parents who smoke to prevent their children from initiating smoking: results from a 3-year intervention evaluation. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 160 (1):56-62.

Jackson, C., & Dickinson, D. (November 2004). Cigarette consumption during childhood and persistence of smoking through adolescence. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 158 (11):1050-1056.

Jackson, C., & Dickinson, D. (March 2003). Can parents who smoke socialise their children against smoking? Results from the Smoke-free Kids intervention trial. Tobacco Control, 12 (1):52-59.

Jackson, C. (November 2002). Perceived legitimacy of parental authority and tobacco and alcohol use during early adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Health, 31 (5):425-432.

Jackson, C., Henriksen, L., & Dickinson, D. (May 1999). Alcohol-specific socialization, parenting behaviors and alcohol use by children. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 60 (3):362-367.

Jackson, C., Henriksen, L., Dickinson, D., Messer, L., & Robertson, S.B. (August 1998). A longitudinal study predicting patterns of cigarette smoking in late childhood. Health Education and Behavior, 25 (4):436-447.

Jackson, C., Henriksen, L., & Foshee, V.A. (1998). The authoritative parenting index: predicting health risk behaviors among children and adolescents. Health Education and Behavior, 25 (3):319-337.

Jackson, C., Henriksen, L., Dickinson, D., & Levine, D.W. (March 1997). The early use of alcohol and tobacco: its relation to children's competence and parents' behavior. American Journal of Public Health, 87 (3):359-364.

Jackson, C., & Henriksen, L. (Jan-Feb 1997). Do as I say: Parent smoking, antismoking socialization, and smoking onset among children. Addictive Behaviors, 22 (1):107-114.

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