Les Roberts
Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health
E-mail: les@a-znet.com

Les Roberts, PhD, holds has a Masters degree in public health from Tulane University and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins. He did a post-doctorate fellowship in epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he worked for 4 years. In 1994, he worked as an epidemiologist for the World Health Organization in Rwanda during their civil war. He previously served as the Director of Health Policy at the International Rescue Committee. He is a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering where he teaches each fall. He teaches a class entitled Water and Sanitation in Complex Emergencies and the 7-week quantitative component of the Program’s Investigative Methods in Complex Emergencies course.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Burnham G, Lafta R, Doocy S and Roberts L. Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey. Lancet. Published online Oct. 11, 2006.

Checci F, Roberts L. Interpreting and Using Mortality Data in Humanitarian Emergencies: A Primer for Non-Epidemiologists.  Humanitarian Policy Network Paper #52, 2005.

Salama P, Roberts L. Evidence-based interventions in complex emergencies. Lancet. 2005 May 28;365(9474):1848.

Roberts L, Lafta R, Garfield R, et al. Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraw: cluster sample survey.  Lancet.  Published online, Oct. 29, 2004.

Roberts L, Hoffman C-A.  Assessing the impact of humanitarian assistance in the health sector. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology. Vol. 1:3, October 7, 2004

Roberts L, Labula C, et al.  Elevated Mortality Associated With Armed Conflict --- Democratic Republic of Congo, 2002.  MMWR Vol. 52(20); 469-471.


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