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CSIH Executive Director
Janet Hatcher Roberts

Dear Guests,

Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. Happy New Year!

2007 was a year of change for CSIH and myself personally.  As many of you know, I took a year’ leave last year to accept a position at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva, as the Director of Migration Health.  During this time we were fortunate to have had, Martha Stone as the Interim Executive Director at CSIH.  Throughout the year, Martha and our Board of Directors facilitated the implementation of our new strategic plan for the Society. We will now begin to identify key priority areas for action to realize this implementation which will be very exciting for all of us.  We also had an election for our Board of Directors and we welcome our two new Directors on the Board, Dr. Karam Ramotar from Ottawa, and Dr. Carol Valois from Sherbrooke, Quebec, and our new Student Representative, Michelle Harvey-Blakenship from Edmonton. 

As we begin 2008 and I resume my duties as Executive Director of the CSIH, I am ready to continue building on our strategic partnerships and developing new ones. We are also implementing some changes in the way in which we communicate with our membership.  Watch your emails for a new and improved Synergy-On-Line this month and other initiatives throughout the year. I look forward to dedicating my time this year to building capacity for health systems and global health, expanding our facilitation activities and ensuring the growth of the Canadian Society for International Health over the next year.

Biography
Jan Hatcher Roberts has extensive experience in the areas of international public health policy and research.  Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Canadian Society for International Health.  She has been directly involved in the design and implementation of all CSIH-implemented projects since she began her tenure as Executive Director in 1997, including five CIDA-funded responsive projects (two health information projects in the South Caucasus, two youth health promotion projects in Ukraine, and a health equity resource allocation project in the Philippines), one competitive CIDA-funded design-and-deliver public health strengthening project in Guyana, and three competitive World Bank-funded public health sector projects in Croatia, among others.

She assumes overall project management and implementation responsibility for these projects, in addition to having had overall responsibility for the now-completed CIDA-funded health systems project in Bolivia. She is responsible for providing technical assistance related to population health models and healthy public policy to the health equity project in the Philippines.

Janet is also Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health at the University of Ottawa, assistant Professor at the University in the Faculty of Medicine and affiliate Scientist at the Institute for Population Health at the University of Ottawa. In that capacity she is responsible for the design and management of health technology projects, as well as teaching international health at the Master’s level.

Over the past two decades, Ms. Hatcher Roberts has been involved in the design and monitoring and evaluation of numerous health projects in her previous positions as Senior Program Specialist in Health Policy at IDRC and Deputy Director of Research and Evaluation with the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. Ms. Hatcher Roberts has extensive knowledge of the role of gender in developing countries. She also brings extensive technical expertise, including in systems-approaches to strengthening district health systems, decentralization, women’s health, and training.

In her volunteer time, Janet is the Chair of the Board for Action Canada for Population Development and is a member of the board for the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research.

Janet is married to Alan and together they have two university bound children, Cory and Emma.

Education

Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

1978                 M. Sc. Community Health and Epidemiology, Trent University, Ontario Canada

1973                 B.A. Anthropology, Algonquin College, Ontario, Canada

1975                 Graduate Nurse, School of Nursing

Publications

Health Research Profile to assess the capacity of low and middle income countries for equity-oriented research. Peter Tugwell, Chitr Sitthi-Amorn, Jan Hatcher-Roberts, Vic Neufeld, Peter Makara, Fernando Munoz, Peter Czerny, Vivian Robinson, Yvo Nuyens and David Okello BMC Public Health 2006,

Hatcher Roberts et al., The role of NGOs in Global Health Research for Development. Oct 2003. Submitted for publication in Health Research, Policy and Systems.

Hatcher Roberts, J., Vlasoff, C., Gender and the Health Care Provider. IDRC Focus Series, 1995

Kitts, J., Hatcher Roberts, J., The Health Gap. IDRC Books. May 1996.

 
Hatcher Roberts, J., Law, M., Poverty and Powerlessness: An Unhealthy Combination for Women in the Developing World.  Annals RCPSC, Vol. 27, No. 6

September 1995

 
Mackenzie, T., Lees, R.E.M., William, A., Laundry, B., Koski, B., H. Roberts, J.  A Multi-factorial analysis of the Role of Dietary Factors in Mortality:  An  International Study. Submitted October, 1985 to Journal of Community Medicine (resubmitted under new authorship in 1996).
 

ed. Wijeyyaratne, P., Hatcher Roberts, J. et. al. Gender, Health and Sustainable Development. Proceeding of a Workshop held in Montevideo, Uruguay. April 1994. IDRC publication
 

ed. Wijeyyaratne, P., Hatcher Roberts, J. et. al. Gender, Health and Sustainable Development. Proceeding of a Workshop held in Montevideo, Uruguay. April 1994. IDRC publication
 

ed. Wijeyyaratne, P., Hatcher Roberts, J. et. al. Gender, Health and Sustainable Development. Proceeding of a Workshop held in Montevideo, Uruguay. April 1994. IDRC publication
 

Lees, R.E.M., H. Roberts, J. Noise Induced Hearing Loss and Blood Pressure.  Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 120, May, 1978, p. 1082-1084.
 

Hatcher, J. L. Factors Predisposing to Noise Induced Deafness. M. Sc. Thesis, Queen’s University, Kingston, 1977.
 

McDowell, LH, H. Roberts, J.  The Thirty-Item Screening scale: A survey measurement of low-level disability.  Canadian Journal of Public Health. May-June, 1983, vol. 74.
 

Lees, R.E.M., Steele R, H. Roberts, J.  Noise Induced Hearing Loss and Leisure Activities of Young People:  A Pilot Study.  Canadian Journal of Public Health.
 

Lees, R.E.M., Steele R, H. Roberts, J. A Case Control Study of Lung Cancer Relative to Domestic Radon Exposure.  Accepted by International Journal of Epidemiology.
 

Mackenzie, T., Lees, R.E.M., William, A., Laundry, B., Koski, B., H. Roberts, J.  A Multi-factorial analysis of the Role of Dietary Factors in Mortality:  An International Study. Submitted October, 1985 to Journal of Community Medicine (resubmitted under new authorship in 1996).

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