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Les Roberts

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#858

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Les Roberts 's Degrees

Masters Epidemiology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Les Roberts is an American epidemiologist. He was the first winner of the Centers for Disease Control's Paul C. Schnitker Award for contributions to global health. He became prominent in the news just before the 2004 U.S. presidential election for his study estimating that 100,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed in the Iraq war at a time when official U.S. government counts were much lower. When a 2006 follow-up study confirmed the report, U.S. President George W. Bush dismissed it, saying the approach had been "pretty well discredited", without explaining how.

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Les Roberts 's Published Works

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Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey (2006) (530)
Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey (2004) (413)
Measuring violence against women amidst war and displacement in northern Uganda using the “neighbourhood method” (2009) (100)
Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Results from a Nationwide Survey (2003) (86)
Liminal Landscapes : Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between (2012) (82)
HPN Network Paper 52: Interpreting and using mortality data in humanitarian emergencies: a primer for non-epidemiologists (2005) (80)
Measuring the impact of humanitarian aid A review of current practice (2004) (76)
Unauthorising popular music heritage: outline of a critical framework (2014) (73)
Documenting Mortality in Crises: What Keeps Us from Doing Better (2008) (69)
Assessing the impact of humanitarian assistance in the health sector (2004) (60)
HPN Humanitarian Practice Network Managed by Humanitarian Policy Group Francesco Checchi and Les Roberts Interpreting and using mortality data in humanitarian emergencies A primer for non-epidemiologists (2006) (58)
Mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1999) (57)
Landscapes in the frame: exploring the hinterlands of the British procedural drama (2016) (47)
Mapping cultures : place, practice, performance (2012) (44)
Talkin bout my generation: popular music and the culture of heritage (2014) (39)
Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq (2007) (39)
Elevated mortality associated with armed conflict--Democratic Republic of Congo, 2002. (2003) (37)
Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology (2016) (36)
Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (2013) (35)
Sites of popular music heritage : memories, histories, places (2015) (33)
The Human Cost of the War in Iraq (2006) (31)
Popular music heritage, cultural memory and cultural identity (2014) (30)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: A Cinematic Geography of Liverpool (2012) (30)
Review of attacks on health care facilities in six conflicts of the past three decades (2018) (30)
Dis/embedded Geographies of Film: Virtual Panoramas and the Touristic Consumption of Liverpool Waterfront (2010) (28)
Marketing musicscapes, or the political economy of contagious magic (2014) (28)
Measuring human rights violations in a conflict-affected country: results from a nationwide cluster survey in Central African Republic (2011) (26)
The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections (2010) (26)
WikiLeaks and Iraq Body Count: the Sum of Parts May Not Add Up to the Whole—A Comparison of Two Tallies of Iraqi Civilian Deaths (2013) (24)
Mapping Cultures: A Spatial Anthropology (2012) (21)
Hospitality and eroticism (2007) (21)
Cross-sectional survey methods to assess retrospectively mortality in humanitarian emergencies. (2009) (20)
Media Coverage of Violent Deaths in Iraq: An Opportunistic Capture-Recapture Assessment (2008) (18)
The City and the Moving Image (2010) (17)
Introduction: re- mapping liminality (2012) (16)
A Debate Over Iraqi Death Estimates (2006) (15)
Making Connections: Crossing Boundaries of Place and Identity in Liverpool and Merseyside Amateur Transport Films (2010) (14)
Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film (2012) (14)
Measuring Physical Violence and Rape Against Somali Women Using the Neighborhood Method (2016) (12)
Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption, and Cinematographic Tourism (2010) (12)
Welcome to Dreamland: From place to non-place and back again in Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort (2002) (12)
Mapping, memory and the city: Archives, databases and film historiography (2011) (11)
Estimating the size of the homeless adolescent population across seven cities in Cambodia (2017) (10)
An Analysis of the National TYCA Research Initiative Survey Section IV: Writing across the Curriculum and Writing Centers in Two-Year College English Programs. (2008) (9)
Advances in Monitoring Have Not Translated into Improvements in Humanitarian Health Services (2007) (9)
Mortality in Iraq – Authors' reply (2007) (9)
The Archive City: Reading Liverpool's Urban Landscape through Film (2007) (9)
(Un)Doing Tourism Anthropology: Outline of a Field of Practice (2013) (8)
The Rhythm of Non Places: Marooning the Embodied Self in Depthless Space (2015) (8)
The Eric Garner Case: Statewide Survey of New York Voters’ Response to Proposed Police Accountability Legislation (2017) (8)
Monitoring and reporting attacks on education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia. (2018) (8)
The Bulger Case: A Spatial Story (2014) (8)
Reporting Iraqi civilian fatalities in a time of war (2009) (8)
Spatial Bricolage: The Art of Poetically Making Do (2018) (7)
Heritage Rocks! Mapping Spaces of Popular Music Tourism (2013) (7)
kinshasa Little relief for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (2001) (7)
Projecting place: Mapping the city in film (2009) (7)
Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space (2018) (7)
War in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2008) (7)
Improving surveillance of attacks on children and education in South Kivu: a knowledge collection and sensitivity analysis in the D.R. Congo (2016) (6)
Navigating the ‘archive city’ (2015) (6)
World in one city: surrealist geography and time-space compression in Alex Cox's Liverpool. (2010) (6)
Unveiling Memory: Blue Plaques as In/tangible Markers of Popular Music Heritage (2014) (6)
Evaluation of a population mobility, mortality, and birth surveillance system in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2019) (5)
Walking, Witnessing, Mapping: An Interview with Iain Sinclair (2012) (5)
Estimating human rights violations in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A population-based survey (2012) (5)
Utopic horizons : cinematic geographies of travel and migration (2005) (5)
Little relief for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (2001) (4)
Ensuring public health neutrality. (2013) (4)
Evaluating the reliability and validity of secondary reporting to measure gender-based violence in conflict and disaster (2020) (4)
Cities in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image (2008) (3)
On Location in Liverpool: Film-Related Tourism and the Consumption of Place (2016) (3)
Surveys about attended births appear to be deceptive in CAR: are the population saying what they think NGO’s want to hear? (2021) (3)
From Sarajevo to Didcot: An interview with Pawel Pawlikowski (2002) (2)
Mental Health Courts: An Interface Between Social Work and Criminal Justice (2010) (2)
Mapping the City in Film (2014) (2)
The Role of Small Arms during the 2003-2004 Conflict in Iraq (2004) (2)
The Question of Space: A Review Essay (2018) (2)
Learning from health information challenges in the Central African Republic: where documenting health and humanitarian needs requires fresh approaches (2021) (1)
Locating the Moving Image: Outline of a New Empiricism (2013) (1)
Introduction: Projecting the Urban (2010) (1)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: Afterword (2012) (1)
Making Data on Iraqi Mortality Rates Available (2007) (1)
Mortality in Iraq (2005) (1)
Walking, Witnessing, Mapping (2012) (1)
Authors defend study that shows high Iraqi death toll (2007) (1)
Transient glamour: the filmic representation of airports and its relation to real life architectural developments. (2008) (1)
Non-places in the Mist: Mapping the Spatial Turn in Theo Angelopoulos' Peripatetic Modernism (2005) (1)
‘The news where you are’: Putting the geo in media studies (2018) (0)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: Movie-mapping: Cinematographic Tourism and Place-marketing (2012) (0)
Navigating cinematic geographies (2020) (0)
Writers Talk featuring David Weaver (2012) (0)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: References (2012) (0)
The Cestrian Book of the Dead: A Necrogeographic Survey of the Dee Estuary (2015) (0)
Liminality and the stranger (2020) (0)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: Cinematic Geography: Mobilizing the Archive City (2012) (0)
Locating the Moving Image (2017) (0)
Review: Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real, Land Use Change: Science, Policy, and Management (2009) (0)
Introduction: Mapping Cultures and Practices: Towards a Spatial Anthropology (2010) (0)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: An Incriminated Medium? The City as Urban Spectacle (2012) (0)
Of Time, Dissonance and the Symphonic-Poetic City (2014) (0)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: City Limits: Crossing Boundaries of Place and Identity (2012) (0)
The Question of Blind Fields To pose space as a question — as the title of Marijn Nieuwenhuis and (2018) (0)
Practising Place – Liminal Landscapes: assembly, enclosure and the West Lancs coast (2014) (0)
Section 18 of the Criminal Procedure Act : the balance between hope and dread : notes (2004) (0)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: Preface and Acknowledgements (2012) (0)
Mental Health Courts (2019) (0)
Cross-sectional survey in Central African Republic finds mortality 4-times higher than UN statistics: how can we not know the Central African Republic is in such an acute humanitarian crisis? (2023) (0)
MORTALLTY IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (1999) (0)
Support for UNRWA's survival (2018) (0)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: Cinematic Cartography: Mapping the Archive City (2012) (0)
Emergency public health and humanitarian assistance in the twenty-first century (2015) (0)
Another Space: Gleaning the Urban Littoral (2012) (0)
Film, Mobility and Urban Space: World in One City: Travel, Globalization and Placeless Space (2012) (0)
Cityscapes: Panoramas and the Mobile Gaze (2012) (0)
Presentation on the Number of Deaths in Iraq to the US Congress by Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich (2008) (0)

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