Leslie Roberts
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Leslie Roberts is a freelance science writer specializing in global health. She was a longtime deputy news editor at the weekly magazine Science, supervising a team of award-winning journalists.
Roberts has written extensively on infectious diseases, including malaria, polio, measles, TB, and meningitis, and has received numerous awards.
Before her position at Science, Roberts was editor-in chief at the World Resources Institute, a global environment and development think tank, where she and her team wrote about environment, development, and health. She was also a senior editor and editor–in-chief at Issues in Science and Technology, the policy journal of the National Academy of Sciences.
