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Name: Nicholas John White

Position: Professor, Senior Consultant

Department: Clinical Tropical Medicine

nickw@tropmedres.ac




Field of Expertise

Additional posts or advisory positions


2007 - present

Advisor; Against Malaria Foundation


2005 - present

Malaria advisor; The Clinton Foundation


2004 - present

Member of the NIH - Wellcome Trust avian influenza research collaboration.


2002 - 2005

Secretary; Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine research and development team.


2002 - 2004

Institute of Medicine committee on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs


2001 - 2003

Member of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases advisory group.


1994

Visiting Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam.


1989/1990

Vice Captain, Thailand Cricket Team


1983/1984

Assistant Medical Officer to the University of Oxford, UK.



World Health Organisation advisory positions


2007 - present

Co-chairman of World Health Organisation Global Malaria Programme Technical Expert Group on the the prevention and treatment of malaria.


2006 - 2007

Chairman of World Health Organisation Global Malaria Programme Technical Expert Group on the case management of malaria.


2004 - present

Chairman of World Health Organisation Antimalarial Treatment Guidelines Committee.


2003 – 2006

Member of the World Health Organisation Technical Advisory Group on ACT deployment.


2003

Member of the World Health Organisation SARS clinical trials advisory group.


2003 - 2005

World Health Organisation Consultant to advise the Myanmar Ministry of Health on Malaria treatment policy and guidelines.


2001 - 2004

Member of the World Health Organisation TDR Intervention Development and Evaluation Proof of Principle Committee.


2001 - 2004

Chairman of World Health Organisation, Roll Back Malaria, Technical Advisory Group on artemether-lumefantrine.


1998 - 2001

Chairman of World Health Organisation TDR Resistance and Policies Task Force.


1996 - 2001

Member of World Health Organisation TDR pyronaridine product development teams.


1996 - present

Member of World Health Organisation TDR artesunate product development team.


1995 - 1997

Member of World Health Organisation Tropical Diseases Research Advisory Committee on the Chemotherapy of Malaria (CHEMAL)


June 1985

World Health Organisation, Co-rapporteur and advisor at meeting on management of severe falciparum malaria, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.



Fellowships


Royal College of Physicians

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Derrick Dunlop Travelling Fellowship 1983

MRC Travelling Fellowship 1984/1985

Wellcome Trust Principal Fellowship 1991

Academy of Medical Sciences 2001

Royal Society of London 2006


Memberships


British Society for the Study of Infection

American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (Honorary member)

British Medical Association

British Pharmacological Society

American Society of Microbiology

Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (Honorary life member)


Editorial or Advisory Boards


2007

PLoS one


2005

Chemotherapy


2004

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Public Library of Science (PLOS) Medicine


2002

The Malaria Journal Tropical Medicine and International Health


2001

Malaria Foundation International South East Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health


1998

Drug Resistance Updates European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology


1997 - 2002

Journal of Infection


1996

Asia Pacific Journal of Immunology Thailand-WHO TDR Collaboration


Last updated: March 7, 2019