Dr. Jackson Williams hails from Johnson City, TN.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Wake Forest University with a BA in Religion. He attended medical school at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, followed by Med/Peds residency at Baystate Medical Center (Tufts University) in Springfield, Massachusetts. After completing an additional year as Pediatric Chief Resident at Baystate, he went on to become the founding member of the Pediatric Hospital Medicine group at Baystate Children’s Hospital in 2007, and was later promoted to Division Chief for Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Inpatient Medical Director at Baystate Children’s Hospital.

In 2011, Dr. Williams took a year-long academic sabbatical to pursue his passion for Global Health.  After obtaining a Diploma in Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, England, he spent several months serving as a volunteer Pediatrician and educator at Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.  HIs global health work has invovled collaborative projecst in India, Haiti, Liberia, and most recently Ghana. 

In 2019, Dr. Williams joined the faculty at the University of Louisville.  In addition to his work as a Pediatric hospitalist, he again became engaged with academic global health work.  In 2023, he was promoted to Division Chief and Humana Endowed Chair in Pediatric Global Health.  Dr. Williams successfully lead efforts for the University of Louisville to join the AMPATH global health consortium, where he has taken on a leadership role for Pediatric engagement with Tamale Teaching Hospital and UDS Medical School in Tamale, Ghana.