Dr Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob

Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Service Professor of Nursing, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Jacqueline (Jackie) Dunbar-Jacob is Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. She is a registered nurse and a licensed psychologist. Jackie’s long standing scientific interests lie in health behavior with an emphasis in patient adherence, chronic disease, and more recently, aging and workforce well-being. She has received over 15 million dollars from the NIH as principal investigator on grants primarily addressing chronic disease and/or patient adherence. In addition, Jackie has significant experience in the behavioral aspects of multicenter clinical trials, having served as the deputy director of the behavioral science consultants in the Coronary Primary Prevention Trial (NHLBI), behavioral science advisor to the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (NIDDK), with consultation to additional NIH supported multicenter trials. She has served on over 30 NIH panels, including state of the science panels, as well as chaired the Scientific Advisory Board of the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) initiative during its first phase. She has over 240 publications (refereed articles, book chapters, published abstracts, and other) with a google h-index of 57. Jackie is currently a consultant on the Teaching Nursing Home Collaborative, a leadership mentor in three nursing organization fellowship programs, a board member in several healthcare focused organizations, and chairs the health behavior expert panel of the American Academy of Nursing.

Jackie received her BSN in nursing from Florida State University, her MSN in psychiatric nursing from the University of California San Francisco, and her PhD in counseling psychology from Stanford University. She has served as president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing. She has also served on the NINR National Advisory Council. She has been an Honorary Advisory Professor at Capital Medical University and Fudan University, China. Jackie’s awards include the pathfinder Distinguished Research Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, National Student Nurses’ Association Weingarten Leader of Leaders Award, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Mary Tolle Wright Founders Award for Excellence in Leadership. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the American Psychological Association, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the American Heart Association.

Updated 22 January 2025