Jacques Rossouw

{{Short description|South African doctor}}

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Jacques Rossouw is a South African-born physician and epidemiologist. He retired as head of the Women's Health Initiative,{{cite web|url=https://www.whi.org/Stories/Jacques%20Rossouw%20retires.aspx|title=WHI - Jacques Rossouw retires|publisher=Women's Health Initiative|accessdate=16 January 2016|archive-date=7 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907205243/https://www.whi.org/Stories/Jacques%20Rossouw%20retires.aspx|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/15/what-science-doesnt-know-about-the-menopause-what-its-for-how-to-treat-it|title=What science doesn't know about the menopause: what it's for and how to treat it|author=Rose George|work=The Guardian|date=15 December 2015 |accessdate=16 January 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/health/14fat.html|title=Maybe You're Not What You Eat|date=14 February 2006|work=The New York Times|accessdate=16 January 2016|archive-date=11 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811200018/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/health/14fat.html?|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/18/AR2006021801566.html|title=New Data On Health: Studies in Confusion|newspaper=Washington Post|accessdate=16 January 2016|archive-date=9 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109064001/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/18/AR2006021801566.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118394176612760522|title=How NIH Misread Hormone Study in 2002|author=Tara Parker-Pope|author-link=Tara Parker-Pope|date=10 July 2007|work=WSJ|accessdate=16 January 2016|archive-date=17 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917001511/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118394176612760522|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/health/science/rethinking-hormones-again.html|title=Rethinking Hormones, Again|last=Rabin|first=Roni|date=2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-08|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=8 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108233530/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/health/science/rethinking-hormones-again.html|url-status=live}} and is based in Washington, D.C.{{cite web|url=http://www.biznews.com/low-carb-healthy-fat-science/2015/04/18/tim-noakes-uses-science-to-twist-knife-and-fork-into-low-carb-critics/|title=Tim Noakes uses science to stick knife into critics|author=Marika Sboros|work=BizNews.com|accessdate=16 January 2016|archive-date=13 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151213210302/http://www.biznews.com/low-carb-healthy-fat-science/2015/04/18/tim-noakes-uses-science-to-twist-knife-and-fork-into-low-carb-critics/|url-status=dead}}

In 2006, he appeared in the Time 100 listing.{{cite web|url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975844_1976459,00.html|title=Jacques Rossouw - The 2006 TIME 100 - TIME|date=8 May 2006|work=TIME.com|access-date=16 January 2016|archive-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418125635/http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975844_1976459,00.html|url-status=live}}

He is a graduate of the University of Cape Town.