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Roger
was the Foundation director of the Medical Research Council's Unit of Reproductive
Biology in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1972 to 1982, and prior to that, he had been
on the scientific staff of the Agricultural Research council's Unit of Reproductive
Physiology and Biochemistry in Cambridge, England from 1956 to 1972.
He
was also a Reader in Reproductive Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine
at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College.
Roger
has published more than 350 scientific papers in a variety of scientific journals.
One of his main research interests has been the evolution of human reproduction.
He has shed new light on the causes of the human population explosion and been
actively involved in contraceptive research and development for two decades. He
is currently involved in trialling lemon juice as a contraceptive and anti-HIV
microbicide in women.
He was chairman
of Family Health International (FHI) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,
from 1983 to 1990 and retired from the board in 1997. FHI is one of the world's
largest non-government, not-for-profit organisations dedicated to the provision
of family planning services for developing countries.
Roger
was on the Population Panel of the Wellcome Trust. In 1989 he was a consultant
to the Global Program on AIDS of the World Health Organisation in Geneva, where
he was involved in designing strategies for the integration of HIV prevention
and family planning programs.