Dr. Jackson-Best is a public health researcher who specializes in mental health and whose work focuses on communities in Canada and the Caribbean. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health and conducted her dissertation research on Black women’s experiences of maternal depression in Barbados. Dr. Jackson-Best has held other notable appointments, such as a Global Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Ottawa, where she conducted a cross-analysis of mental illness, HIV/AIDS, and physical disability stigma with a focus on interventions and intersectionality frameworks and most recently worked with the Trinidadian NGO I Am One to pilot the ‘Your Story’ research project which explores the lived experiences of LGBTQ people in the Caribbean. Dr. Jackson-Best has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as BMC Public Health, Gender and Education, and the Journal of International Women’s Studies.