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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. 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. She was director of the London Health Observatory from 2001 to 2013.