Debra Elizabeth Jackson AO is an Australian academic nurse and Professor of Nursing at the Susan Wakil School of Nursing at the University of Sydney, Australia. In 2021 she was awarded Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Health in the University of Technology Sydney. She holds a number of adjunct roles including Honorary Professor of Nursing, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, visiting Professor at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in King's College London, Bournemouth University, and Auckland University of Technology. She was previously the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Nursing and is now the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing.