UTSW Recruits Leader to Launch Health Implementation Science Program

George Jackson, PhD, MHA, a Professor at Duke University Medical Center, has joined UT Southwestern’s Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health as a Professor of Public Health and founding Director of the Program for Implementation Science and Practice.

“Dr. Jackson will be an integral part of the University’s new School of Public Health,” said Celette Sugg Skinner, PhD, Interim Dean of the O’Donnell School of Public Health. The School, created to address health care needs in North Texas and beyond, is the fourth at UT Southwestern and its first added in 50 years.