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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 2023-03-18.
• Roberts, Donald (2007). "Opinion - A New Home for DDT". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
• 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

External links

• Donald Roberts - SourceWatch

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