Professor Bayard Roberts

PhD MSc BA

Professor

in Health Systems and Policy

Room

Room 102

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

Tel.

+44 (0)20 7927 2050

Fax.

+44 (0)20 7927 2701

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Bayard

My research addresses the health determinants, policies and systems of countries experiencing major social change such as those affected by armed conflcit and forced migration. This research has focused particularly on chronic conditions of mental health and non-communicable diseases, and harmful health behaviours such as tobacco and harmful alcohol use.

I am the Director of the Centre for Global Chronic Conditions at LSHTM, and Editor-in-Chief of the BMC journal Conflict and Health.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy

Centres

Centre for Global Chronic Conditions

Global Mental Health

Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre

Teaching

I lecture on themes related to conflict and health, and currently superivise four PhD students. I am Chair of the Exam Board for the MSc in Global Mental Health.

Research

I am the Principal Investigator of the £8 million RECAP project funded by GCRF/ESRC which seeks to strengthen accountability and decision-making in humanitarian crises.

I am co-investigator/work package lead on a European Commission funded study exploring the scaling-up of mental health interventions for Syrian refugees in countries neighboring Syria and in Europe. This is led by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

I am also involved in research evaluating NCD interventions in humanitarian crises with Médecins Sans Frontières.

Recently completed projects include: the burden of mental disorders and access to care for internally displaced persons in Ukraine; determinants of mental health of internally displaced persons in Georgia; a systematic review evaluating public health research priorities in humanitarian crises; and a study on economic crises and health resilience.

My previous research has included projects on: trends in health and harmful health behaviours in the former Soviet Union; developing and validating a new method to estimate mortality in conflict-affected and resource-poor settings; and the influence of armed conflict and forced migration on mental health in South Sudan and northern Uganda.

Funders for my research have included the Wellcome Trust, ESRC, DFID, the European Commission, and AED/USAID.

I also jointly led the 2017 Lancet series on health in humanitarian crises with Francesco Checchi.

Research Area

Conflict

Health inequalities

Health policy

Health systems

Public health

Social and structural determinants of health

Substance abuse

Tobacco control

Alcohol

Global Health

Migration

Smoking

Discipline

Epidemiology

Policy analysis

Disease and Health Conditions

Chronic disease

Mental health

Diabetes

Non-communicable diseases

Region

World

Selected Publications

Evidence on public health interventions in humanitarian crises.

Blanchet, K. ; Ramesh, A. ; Frison, S. ; Warren, E. ; Hossain, M. ; Smith, J. ; Knight, A. ; Post, N. ; Lewis, C. ; Woodward, A. ; Dahab, M. ; Ruby, A. ; Sistenich, V. ; Pantuliano, S. ; Roberts, B. ;

2017

Lancet

Mental health care utilisation among internally displaced persons in Ukraine: results from a nation-wide survey.

Roberts, B. ; Makhashvili, N. ; Javakhishvili, J. ; Karachevskyy, A. ; Kharchenko, N. ; Shpiker, M. ; Richardson, E. ;

2017

Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci

Coping strategies of internally displaced women in Georgia: A qualitative study.

Seguin, M. ; Lewis, R. ; Razmadze, M. ; Amirejibi, T. ; Roberts, B. ;

2017

Soc Sci Med

The Effectiveness of Interventions for Non-Communicable Diseases in Humanitarian Crises: A Systematic Review.

Ruby, A. ; Knight, A. ; Perel, P. ; Blanchet, K. ; Roberts, B. ;