Professor of Public Health Modelling
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Prof Peter J White PhD
https://www.linkedin.com/in/profpeterjwhite/
*Professor of Public Health Modelling, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London
*Head, Modelling & Economics Unit, UK Health Security Agency
*Co-Director, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling and Health Economics
I model a range of infectious diseases to improve understanding of their epidemiology, assess the expected effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of intervention options, and evaluate interventions post-implementation. I use Bayesian evidence synthesis, transmission-dynamic modelling, health-services research, and economic analysis, applied to data from surveillance, surveys, cohort studies, and trials. In sexually-transmitted infections I have worked mostly on HIV, Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Currently I’m a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on STI research priority setting. I have advised UK government departments, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Australian Department of Health, ECDC, RIVM (Netherlands public health agency), US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Wellcome Trust, World Bank, and WHO. I’m a former Expert Consultant to US CDC on modelling sexually-transmitted infections. Originally I was a laboratory scientist, and I performed ecological fieldwork as part of my PhD.
My work has been funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Department for International Development (DfID), Medical Research Council (MRC), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Wellcome Trust, and World Health Organization.
I’ve published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, including in Lancet journals, BMJ, PNAS, PLOS Medicine, CID, JID, mBio, Eurosurveillance, Epidemiology, IJE, AJE. I’ve also written several book chapters, including in Infectious Diseases 3rd & 4th editions edited by Cohen, Powderly & Opal; and the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Infectious Disease Epidemiology.
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