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About Us
CSIH Executive Director
Janet Hatcher Roberts
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 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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