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Prof Richard White

Prof of Infectious Disease Modelling

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel St
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Richard G White (BSc, MSc, PhD) is Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling in the Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, the TB Centre, and the Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

 

Richard was awarded a BSc in Physics from Durham University and an MSc in Medical Demography from LSHTM. He was awarded a PhD in Infectious Disease Modelling in 2006, and led the establishment of the LSHTM’s Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases in 2007. He was awarded a Methodology Research Fellowship from the UK Medical Research Council in 2009 and the Director's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research in 2020. Richard was co-head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology with Katherine Fielding.


Externally, Richard is Director of the TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium (TB MAC) and co-leads the LSHTM TB Modelling Group with Rein Houben. He holds many committee memberships, including co-chair of the Epidemiology, Modelling, and Trial Designs Research Community in the Consortium for TB Vaccine Discovery; and TB lead of the Global Fund for Aids, TB, and Malaria Modelling Guidance Committee. 

Internally, Richard currently serves on LSHTM's Senate and Innovation Committees, is Chair of the LSHTM Global Health Economics Centre Steering Committee and an Advisory Panel member for the LSHTM TB Centre.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
TB Centre
Vaccine Centre

Teaching

Richard teaches on the mathematical modelling of the spread and control of infectious diseases in the UK and internationally.

He organises the LSHTM Infectious Disease Modelling MSc Module and Summer Short Course with Emilia Vynnycky (UKHSA), Lara Gosce (MSc Module) and Rebecca Clark (Short Course).

He is co-author of the textbook: An Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling, published by Oxford University Press.

Research

Richard's research focus is the mathematical and statistical modelling of the transmission and control of infectious diseases, particularly TB and HIV.

He has co-authored around 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications. 

He is currently PI or LSHTM PI on around 4 research grants, including:
Creating evidence to support tuberculosis (TB) national and global decision-makers in reducing the global burden of TB (Wellcome), TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium (BMGF), Modelling to estimate the health impact of novel tuberculosis vaccines on TB burden in people living with HIV (NIH), and Modeling of TB vaccine investments and impact (BMGF).

He is an Associate Editor for IJTLD and a permanent reviewer for Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Richard currently supervises PhD students, and welcomes new PhD students, in TB modelling, and vaccine modelling.

Research Area
Infectious disease policy
Statistical methods
Bacteria
Diagnostics
Therapeutics
Vaccines
Disease control
Disease burden
Research methodology
Mathematical modelling
Disease and Health Conditions
Tuberculosis
Infectious diseases
HIV/AIDS
Country
Brazil
China
India
Tanzania
Uganda
Indonesia
Netherlands
United States of America
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Malawi
South Africa
New Zealand
Mozambique
Thailand
Region
South Asia
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Potential impact of tuberculosis vaccines in China, South Africa, and India.
Harris, RC; SUMNER, T; KNIGHT, GM; Zhang, H; WHITE, RG;
2020
Science Translational Medicine
Potential effect of age of BCG vaccination on global paediatric tuberculosis mortality: a modelling study.
Roy, P; Vekemans, J; CLARK, A; SANDERSON, C; HARRIS, RC; WHITE, RG;
2019
The Lancet Global Health
The way forward for tuberculosis vaccines.
WHITE, RG; Hanekom, WA; Vekemans, J; HARRIS, RC;
2019
Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Age-targeted tuberculosis vaccination in China and implications for vaccine development: a modelling study.
HARRIS, RC; SUMNER, T; KNIGHT, GM; Evans, T; Cardenas, V; Chen, C; WHITE, RG;
2019
The Lancet Global Health
A Bayesian Approach to Understanding Sex Differences in Tuberculosis Disease Burden.
HORTON, KC; SUMNER, T; HOUBEN, RM G J; CORBETT, EL; WHITE, RG;
2018
American journal of epidemiology
Feasibility of achieving the 2025 WHO global tuberculosis targets in South Africa, China, and India: a combined analysis of 11 mathematical models.
HOUBEN, RM G J; Menzies, NA; SUMNER, T; Huynh, GH; Arinaminpathy, N; Goldhaber-Fiebert, JD; Lin, H-H; Wu, C-Y; Mandal, S; Pandey, S; Suen, S-C; Bendavid, E; Azman, AS; Dowdy, DW; Bacaër, N; Rhines, AS; Feldman, MW; Handel, A; Whalen, CC; Chang, ST; Wagner, BG; Eckhoff, PA; Trauer, JM; Denholm, JT; McBryde, ES; ... WHITE, RG.
2016
The Lancet Global health
Post-treatment effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on tuberculosis incidence in HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy.
SUMNER, T; HOUBEN, RM G J; Rangaka, MX; Maartens, G; Boulle, A; Wilkinson, RJ; WHITE, RG;
2016
AIDS (London, England)
Effect of pre-exposure prophylaxis and combination HIV prevention for men who have sex with men in the UK: a mathematical modelling study.
PUNYACHAROENSIN, N; EDMUNDS, WJ; De Angelis, D; Delpech, V; Hart, G; Elford, J; Brown, A; Gill, ON; WHITE, RG;
2016
The lancet HIV
Modelling the HIV epidemic among MSM in the United Kingdom: quantifying the contributions to HIV transmission to better inform prevention initiatives.
Punyacharoensin, N; EDMUNDS, WJ; De Angelis, D; Delpech, V; Hart, G; Elford, J; Brown, A; Gill, N; WHITE, RG;
2015
AIDS (London, England)
Ability of preventive therapy to cure latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in HIV-infected individuals in high-burden settings.
HOUBEN, RM G J; SUMNER, T; GRANT, AD; WHITE, RG;
2014
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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