Dr. Les Roberts
Iraq War Mortality
Previously Aired On: June 6, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Dr. Les Roberts has a B.S. degree in physics, 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, Roberts worked as an epidemiologist for the World Health Organization in Rwanda during their civil war. He was Director of Health Policy at the International Rescue Committee from Dec. 2000 until April of 2003. He now is an Associate Professor with the Columbia University Program on Forced Migration and Health. Dr. Roberts has led over 50 surveys in 17 countries, mostly measuring mortality in times of war.
The photo shows Dr. Roberts in the background with his research team in Iraq doing the actual survey for the Iraq war body count.
