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

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, and 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 was co-head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology with Katherine Fielding.

Externally, Richard is Director of the TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium (TB MAC) and co-leads the LSHTM TB Modelling Group with Rein Houben. He holds many committee memberships, including co-chair of the Epidemiology, Modelling, and Trial Designs Research Community in the Consortium for TB Vaccine Discovery; and TB lead of the Global Fund for Aids, TB, and Malaria Modelling Guidance Committee. 

Internally, Richard currently serves on LSHTM's Senate and Innovation Committees, is Chair of the LSHTM Global Health Economics Centre Steering Committee and an Advisory Panel member for the LSHTM TB Centre.