Donald R. Roberts

Donald Roberts is a professor of entomology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. ^{[1] [2]}

Career

Roberts became active at the United States Army Medical Corps and worked for the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (1980 to 1984) and USU (1984 to 2007) spending his career on Malaria prevention. He is known for his intense fights with the WHO advocating for usage of DDT . ^{[3] [4]} Contrary to the scientific mainstream he thought of it as an „excellent powder“. ^[5]

He serves as an advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is on the board of Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM). ^[3]

Publications

• Roberts, Donald; Andre, Richard (1994). "Insecticide Resistance Issues in Vector-Borne Disease Control". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene . 50 (6). American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: 21–34. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.1994.50.21. ISSN   0002-9637. PMID   8024082.

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Lounibos, L. Philip (2002). "Invasions by insect vectors of human disease". Annual Review of Entomology . 47. Annual Reviews: 233–66. doi:10.1146/ANNUREV.ENTO.47.091201.145206. PMID   11729075. S2CID   28336540.

• Roberts, Donald; Laughlin, Larry; Hsheih, Paul; Legters, Llewellyn (1997). "DDT, Global Strategies, and a Malaria Control Crisis in South America". Emerging Infectious Diseases . 3 (3). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC): 295–302. doi:10.3201/eid0303.970305. ISSN   1080-6040. PMC   2627649 . PMID   9284373. S2CID   12662918.
• Roberts, Donald; Manguin, S.; Mouchet, J. (2000). "DDT house spraying and re-emerging malaria". The Lancet . 356 (9226). Elsevier: 330–332. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(00)02516-2. ISSN   0140-6736. PMID   11071203. S2CID   19359748.
• Attaran, Roberts, Curtis, and Kilama. 2000. Balancing risks on the backs of the poor. Nature Medicine . 6(7):729–731.
• "BILATERAL MALARIA ASSISTANCE: PROGRESS AND PROGNOSIS". Federal Fiscal Management, Government Information, and International Security Subcommittee . 2006. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
• Roberts, Donald (2007). "Opinion - A New Home for DDT". The New York Times . Retrieved March 18, 2023.
• Vetter, Walter; Roberts, Donald (2007). "Revisiting the organohalogens associated with 1979-samples of Brazilian bees (Eufriesea purpurata)". Science of the Total Environment . 377 (2–3). Elsevier BV: 371–377. Bibcode:2007ScTEn.377..371V. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.02.009. ISSN   0048-9697. PMID   17379276.
• Grieco, John; Achee, Nicole; Chareonviriyaphap, Theeraphap; Suwonkerd, Wannapa; Chauhan, Kamal; Sardelis, Michael; Roberts, Donald (2007). Krishna, Sanjeev (ed.). "A New Classification System for the Actions of IRS Chemicals Traditionally Used For Malaria Control". PLOS ONE . 2 (8). Public Library of Science: e716. Bibcode:2007PLoSO...2..716G. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000716 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   1934935 . PMID   17684562.

References

1. "PMB information handbook 2020-2021" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2023.
2. "PMB information handbook" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2023.
3. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) (2007). "Malaria Researcher Wins Prestigious National Berry Award".
4. Bate, Roger; Tren, Richard; Roberts, Donald (2022). "The United Nations' Scientific Fraud Against DDT". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved May 14, 2023.
5. Roberts, Donald; Tren, Richard; Bate, Roger; Zambone, Jennifer (2010). The Excellent Powder : DDT's Political and Scientific History. Indianapolis, IN. p. 452. ISBN   978-1-60844-376-5. OCLC   618741756. S2CID   158430456. ISBN   9781608443765 S2CID   85003987.

External links

• Donald Roberts - SourceWatch