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Les Roberts born is an American epidemiologist. Schnitker Award for contributions to global health.

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He became prominent in the news just before the U. When a follow-up study confirmed the report, U. President George W. Bush dismissed it, saying the approach had been "pretty well discredited", without explaining how. He obtained an undergraduate degree in physics at St. Lawrence University in and a master's degree in public health from Tulane University in He did post-graduate fellowship work with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and obtained a Ph.

Roberts' first important contribution came from a study among refugees in Malawi conducted for the United Nations regarding the effects of narrow-necked water containers that showed most water contamination came from the hands of refugees. Since that study, narrow-necked water containers have become a standard component of humanitarian relief programs.