Jackie Benschop is a New Zealand Professor of Veterinary Public Health at Massey University, specialising in the animal–human–environment interface, particularly for Leptospira, Campylobacter and Salmonella.

Benschop completed a PhD titled 'Epidemiological investigations of surveillance strategies of zoonotic Salmonella' at Massey University in 2009.

[1] Benschop then joined the Massey faculty, where she is co-director of the Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory.

[2] From 2009 to 2011 she led a FRST-funded project on infectious diseases and climate variation, and in 2009 was appointed to a conjoint position with ESR.

[2][5] In 2016 Benschop received a C. Alma Baker Trust Fellowship to travel to the UK, where she was hosted by Profesor Ruth Zadoks and Drs Kathryn Allan and Jo Halliday at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow.