Les Roberts

Who is Les Roberts?

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 estimates 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.