Richard White BSc MSc PhD

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Background

Richard was awarded a BSc (Physics) from Durham University and an MSc (Medical Demography) and PhD (Infectious Disease Modelling) from LSHTM. He is now a Senior Lecturer in Infectious Disease Modelling in the Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases and MRC Methodology Research Fellow.

Teaching

Richard primarily teaches on the mathematical modelling of the spread and control of infectious diseases. He is co-organiser of the LSHTM Infectious Disease Modelling summer short course and MSc Module with Emilia Vynnycky (UK Health Protection Agency), John Edmunds begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting and Ken Eames (LSHTM).

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

Research

In recent years Richard has focussed on using statistical and mathematical modelling to understand the spread and control of sexually transmitted infections/HIV in developing countries. This has resulted in papers using deterministic, individual-based stochastic and bayesian methods, and related observational epidemiology studies and systematic reviews. Examples include using a simple deterministic model to predict the course of the HIV epidemic and HIV treatment need in Malawi, using a bayesian approach to estimating the proportion of HIV transmission due to unsafe injections in Uganda, and using individual-based stochastic models to predict the effectiveness of curable and incurable STI control and male circumcision on HIV transmission in many countries across sub-Saharan Africa.

He is currently involved in mathematical modelling research projects on the transmission and control of many infectious diseases including HIV, tuberculosis, herpes simplex virus-2, influenza, human papillomavirus and rift valley fever, in places as diverse as Senegal and Soho.

He holds an MRC methodology research fellowship to evaluate respondent driven sampling and is an associate editor for STI.

Selected publications

• Vynnycky, E.; White, R.G. An Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling Oxford University Press 2010
• UNAIDS/WHO/SACEMA Expert Group on Modelling the Impact and Cost of Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention, (Hankins, C; Hargrove, J; Williams, B; Abu-Raddad, L; Auvert, B; Bollinger, L; Dorrington, R; Ghani, A; Gray, R; Hallett, T; Kahn, JG; Lohse, N; Nagelkerke, N; Porco, T; Schmid, G; Stover, J; Weiss, H; Welte, A; White, P; White, R.; ).; Male circumcision for HIV prevention in high HIV prevalence settings: what can mathematical modelling contribute to informed decision making? PLoS Med, 2009; 6(9):e1000109
• White, R.G.; Glynn, J.R.; Orroth, K.K.; Freeman, E.E.; Bakker, R.; Weiss, H.A.; Kumaranayake, L.; Habbema, J.D.; Buvé, A.; Hayes, R.J.; Male circumcision for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: who, what and when? AIDS, 2008; 22(14):1841-50
• White, R.G.; Orroth, K.K.; Glynn, J.R.; Freeman, E.E.; Bakker, R.; Habbema, J.D.; Terris-Prestholt, F.; Kumaranayake, L.; Buvé, A.; Hayes, R.J.; Treating Curable Sexually Transmitted Infections to Prevent HIV in Africa: Still an Effective Control Strategy? J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 2008; 47(3):346-53
• White, R.G.; Freeman, E.E.; Orroth, K.K.; Bakker, R.; Weiss, H.A.; O'Farrell, N.; Buvé, A.; Hayes, R.J.; Glynn, J.R.; Population-level effect of HSV-2 therapy on the incidence of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Sex Transm Infect, 2008; 84 Suppl 2:ii12-8
• White, R.G.; Moodley, P.; McGrath, N.; Hosegood, V.; Zaba, B.; Herbst, K.; Newell, M.L.; Sturm, A.W.; Hayes, R.J.; Low effectiveness of syndromic treatment services for curable sexually transmitted infections in rural South Africa. Sex Transm Infect, 2008; 84(7):528-34
• White, R.G.; Cooper, B.S.; Kedhar, A.; Orroth, K.K.; Biraro, S.; Baggaley, R.F.; Whitworth, J.; Korenromp, E.L.; Ghani, A.; Boily, M.C.; Hayes, R.J.; Quantifying HIV-1 transmission due to contaminated injections. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2007; 104(23):9794-9
• Korenromp, E.L.; White, R.G.; Orroth, K.K.; Bakker, R.; Kamali, A.; Serwadda, D.; Gray, R.H.; Grosskurth, H.; Habbema, J.D.; Hayes, R.J.; Determinants of the Impact of Sexually Transmitted Infection Treatment on Prevention of HIV Infection: A Synthesis of Evidence from the Mwanza, Rakai, and Masaka Intervention Trials. J Infect Dis, 2005; 191(Suppl 1):S168-78

Full publications listing (since 2001)