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Professor Jennifer Roberts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

September 1938 – 11 April 2014<\/p>\n

Early Career<\/h4>\n

Jennifer Roberts was born into a mining family in North Wales. She won a miners\u2019 scholarship to the London School of Economics aged 21. In 1973 she became a research fellow at the London School of Economics having written her PhD on macro-economics and the history of economic thought.<\/p>\n

In 1972 the Centre for Extension Training in Community Medicine<\/a>, funded by the government and based in Bedford Square, was established by LSHTM to provide specialist training for public health and community medicine personnel involved in the first major re-organization of the National Health Service. Roberts provided the economics teaching.<\/p>\n

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CETCM Prospectus 1975-6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 The first economist to be employed by the School, Roberts played a key role in establishing Health Economics as an internationally important field. With Brian Abel-Smith, she established the MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing, which proved the seed-bed for the establishment and expansion of the discipline of Health Economics at LSHTM and internationally.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Health professionals studying a short course at CETCM, 1976.
Roberts, standing, back row. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Research work<\/h4>\n

From the 1970s on, Roberts undertook much research into NHS primary and community healthcare, including research into NHS staffing (\u2018Medical Manpower\u2019), primary care treatment in A&E; and in the 1990s projects looking at the efficacy of virtual or tele consulting, in some ways anticipating today\u2019s use of e-consultations. <\/em><\/p>\n

In the 1990s Roberts was involved in research on communicable diseases linked with poor hygiene management, such as Hospital Acquired Infections including MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), and a major E Coli 0157 outbreak in Scotland. As part of the response to these problems, Roberts set up the Masters programme in Infectious Disease Control, to educate a new generation of public health workers. The programme still continues.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Roberts with Nick Graves, co-researcher on Hospital Acquired Infections<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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LSHTM Briefing paper 2001<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Her extensive research revealed the economic burden, both for providers of health care, and for those affected by disease. Roberts\u2019 last major publication, The Economics of Infectious Disease<\/em> (Oxford: 2008) is a testament to the importance of her discipline in the management and control of of infectious disease.<\/p>\n

The Roberts collection<\/a> is a fascinating archive for anyone researching changes and developments in UK healthcare from the 1970s to 2000s. Roberts was a pioneer: an innovative economist who saw that her discipline could benefit health services and patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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