Professor Peter White

Peter White is Professor of Public Health Modelling in the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London, Head of the Modelling & Economics Unit at the UK Health Security Agency, and Co-Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling & Health Economics. He is a former Expert Consultant to US CDC on modelling sexually-transmitted infections. He has advised the UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Department for International Development (DfID), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Australian Department of Health, ECDC, RIVM, US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Wellcome Trust, World Bank, and WHO.

Prof White has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and has written several book chapters. He was originally a laboratory scientist, and performed ecological fieldwork as part of his PhD. Prof White’s work focuses on understanding the epidemiology of a range of infectious diseases and cost-effectiveness of interventions. He uses techniques of 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 he has worked mostly on HIV, Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae.