Bobbie Jacobson
Bobbie Jacobson OBE, FFPH | |
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Born | Roberta Anne Jacobson 1950 (age 70–71) |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Occupation | Public health physician |
Roberta Anne Jacobson OBE, FFPH (born 1950), known as Bobbie, is a British public health physician.
Jacobson graduated with a degree in biochemistry from the University of Sussex in 1972, then undertook medical training at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1982.[1]
She worked as deputy director of Action on Smoking and Health from 1973 to 1977, then after a period as a junior hospital doctor was appointed a research fellow in health promotion at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1985.[1]
She was a consultant in public health medicine for from 1989 to 1990, then director of public health there from 1990 to 1993, and for from 1993 to 2001.[1]
She was director of the London Health Observatory from 2001 to 2013.[1]
She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 New Year Honours, "For services to Public Health";[2] and was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH) in 1996.[1]
In 2013, she gave the inaugural lecture of the .[3]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Caroline Overy; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2011). History of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-902238-74-9. Wikidata Q29581782.
- ^ "No. 57855". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 31 December 2005. pp. 1–30.
- ^ "Hopkins Nursing Events". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
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