Richard White

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

He is Director of the TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium (TB MAC) and co-leads the LSHTM TB Modelling Group with Rein Houben.

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, 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 is co-head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology with Katherine Fielding, serves on LSHTM’s Senate, Research Governance Committee, and Innovation Committee.