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  1. Global tuberculosis targets and milestones set for 2016–2035: definition and rationale

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, July 2018, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  2. Measuring performance_Healthcare Access_Quality Index for 195 countries and territories

    Article • The Lancet, June 2018, Elsevier

    Kathryn H. Jacobsen, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Dr Shariful Islam, Professor Stefan Lorkowski, Professor Erkin Mirrakhimov, Prof Richard G White, Dr Yuan-Pang Wang, Prof. Maciej Banach, Mr. Tara Ballav Adhikari, ED Doris V. Ortega-Altamirano, Ebrahim M. Yimer, Dr Gebre Teklemariam Demoz, Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic MD, PhD, MAE, Dr Azmeraw Amare, Mr Raimundas Lunevicius, Professor Yousef Khader, Dr Srinivas Goli, Prof.Dr. Adnan Kisa, Amrit Banstola, Netsanet Asseffa, Andrew T. Olagunju, Dr Md Nuruzzaman Khan, Dr. Bolajoko O. Olusanya, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Dr Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi

  3. Evidence-informed policy making at country level: lessons learned from the South African Tuberculosis Think Tank

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, June 2018, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  4. Transmission events revealed in tuberculosis contact investigations in London

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  5. Small contribution of gold mines to the ongoing tuberculosis epidemic in South Africa: a modeling-based study

    Article • BMC Medicine, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  6. An explanation for the low proportion of tuberculosis that results from transmission between household and known social contacts

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  7. Improving ART programme retention and viral suppression are key to maximising impact of treatment as prevention – a modelling study

    Article • BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  8. Impact of Targeted Tuberculosis Vaccination Among a Mining Population in South Africa: A Model-Based Study

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Richard G White

  9. Universal test, treat, and keep: improving ART retention is key in cost-effective HIV control in Uganda

    Article • BMC Infectious Diseases, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  10. An evaluation of tuberculosis contact investigations against national standards

    Article • Thorax, April 2017, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  11. Wildlife-livestock interactions and risk areas for cross-species spread of bovine tuberculosis

    Article • Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, January 2017, AOSIS Open Journals

    Prof Richard G White

  12. Using Data from Macaques To Predict Gamma Interferon Responses after Mycobacterium bovis BCG Vaccination in Humans: a Proof-of-Concept Study of Immunostimulation/Immunodynamic Modeling Methods

    Article • Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, January 2017, ASM Journals

    Prof Richard G White

  13. Efficient History Matching of a High Dimensional Individual-Based HIV Transmission Model

    Article • SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, January 2017, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Prof Richard G White

  14. A novel blood test for tuberculosis prevention and treatment

    Article • South African Medical Journal, December 2016, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Prof Richard G White

  15. A Multistrain Mathematical Model To Investigate the Role of Pyrazinamide in the Emergence of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, December 2016, ASM Journals

    Prof Richard G White

  16. Cost and cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis treatment shortening: a model-based analysis

    Article • BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  17. The TB vaccine H56+IC31 dose-response curve is peaked not saturating: Data generation for new mathematical modelling methods to inform vaccine dose decisions

    Article • Vaccine, December 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Richard G White

  18. History matching of a complex epidemiological model of human immunodeficiency virus transmission by using variance emulation

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics), November 2016, Wiley

    Prof Richard G White

  19. Cost-effectiveness and resource implications of aggressive action on tuberculosis in China, India, and South Africa: a combined analysis of nine models

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, November 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Richard G White

  20. Feasibility of achieving the 2025 WHO global tuberculosis targets in South Africa, China, and India: a combined analysis of 11 mathematical models

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, November 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Richard G White

  21. The potential impact of BCG vaccine supply shortages on global paediatric tuberculosis mortality

    Article • BMC Medicine, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  22. Sex Differences in Tuberculosis Burden and Notifications in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Article • PLoS Medicine, September 2016, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  23. Systematic review of mathematical models exploring the epidemiological impact of future TB vaccines

    Article • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Richard G White

  24. Post-treatment effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on tuberculosis incidence in HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy

    Article • AIDS, May 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  25. TIME Impact – a new user-friendly tuberculosis (TB) model to inform TB policy decisions

    Article • BMC Medicine, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  26. Coverage of clinic-based TB screening in South Africa may be low in key risk groups

    Article • Public Health Action, March 2016, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  27. A Systematic Review of Published Respondent-Driven Sampling Surveys Collecting Behavioral and Biologic Data

    Article • AIDS and Behavior, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  28. Time for men to count, too

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, March 2016, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  29. Effect of pre-exposure prophylaxis and combination HIV prevention for men who have sex with men in the UK: a mathematical modelling study

    Article • The Lancet HIV, February 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Richard G White

  30. Individual-level factors associated with variation in mycobacterial-specific immune response: Gender and previous BCG vaccination status

    Article • Tuberculosis, January 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Richard G White

  31. The Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of a Four-Month Regimen for First-Line Treatment of Active Tuberculosis in South Africa

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2015, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  32. Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology for respondent-driven sampling studies: “STROBE-RDS” statement

    Article • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, December 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Richard G White

  33. The Distribution of Fitness Costs of Resistance-Conferring Mutations Is a Key Determinant for the Future Burden of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Model-Based Analysis

    Article • Clinical Infectious Diseases, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Richard G White

  34. Tuberculosis Prevention in South Africa

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2015, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  35. Risk factors associated with Rift Valley fever epidemics in South Africa in 2008–11

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2015, Nature

    Prof Richard G White

  36. Regarding the effect of cured tuberculosis disease on longevity

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, March 2015, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  37. To improve our tuberculosis burden estimates we need to learn from each other

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, March 2015, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  38. Bayesian History Matching of Complex Infectious Disease Models Using Emulation: A Tutorial and a Case Study on HIV in Uganda

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2015, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  39. Accelerating progress towards tuberculosis elimination: the need for combination treatment and prevention

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, January 2015, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  40. Modelling the HIV epidemic among MSM in the United Kingdom

    Article • AIDS, December 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  41. The Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Mortality in HIV Positive People during Tuberculosis Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2014, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  42. Using the TIME model in Spectrum to estimate tuberculosis–HIV incidence and mortality

    Article • AIDS, November 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  43. Modeling of Novel Diagnostic Strategies for Active Tuberculosis – A Systematic Review: Current Practices and Recommendations

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2014, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  44. Impact and cost-effectiveness of new tuberculosis vaccines in low- and middle-income countries

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Prof Richard G White

  45. Impact and cost-effectiveness of current and future tuberculosis diagnostics: the contribution of modelling

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, September 2014, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  46. Population-Level Impact of Shorter-Course Regimens for Tuberculosis: A Model-Based Analysis

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2014, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  47. How can mathematical models advance tuberculosis control in high HIV prevalence settings?

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, May 2014, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  48. Towards elimination in industrialised countries: expanding diagnosis and treatment of LTBI among immigrants [Editorial]

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, April 2014, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Prof Richard G White

  49. Ability of preventive therapy to cure latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in HIV-infected individuals in high-burden settings

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Prof Richard G White

  50. Looking upstream to prevent HIV transmission

    Article • AIDS, March 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  51. The dual impact of antiretroviral therapy and sexual behaviour changes on HIV epidemiologic trends in Uganda: a modelling study

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, February 2014, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  52. Estimation of the HIV Basic Reproduction Number in Rural South West Uganda: 1991–2008

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2014, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  53. Health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of earlier eligibility for adult antiretroviral therapy and expanded treatment coverage: a combined analysis of 12 mathematical models

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, January 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Richard G White

  54. The potential effects of changing HIV treatment policy on tuberculosis outcomes in South Africa

    Article • AIDS, January 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  55. Respondent Driven Sampling: Determinants of Recruitment and a Method to Improve Point Estimation

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2013, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  56. Predicting the Long-Term Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy Scale-Up on Population Incidence of Tuberculosis

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2013, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  57. Effect of HSV-2 on population-level trends in HIV incidence in Uganda between 1990 and 2007

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, September 2013, Wiley

    Prof Richard G White

  58. Community understanding of respondent-driven sampling in a medical research setting in Uganda: importance for the use of RDS for public health research

    Article • International Journal of Social Research Methodology, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Richard G White

  59. Transmission Potential of Rift Valley Fever Virus over the Course of the 2010 Epidemic in South Africa

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, June 2013, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Prof Richard G White

  60. Heterosexual HIV-1 Infectiousness and Antiretroviral Use

    Article • Epidemiology, January 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Deirdre Hollingsworth, Prof Richard G White

  61. Does the ‘inverse equity hypothesis’ explain how both poverty and wealth can be associated with HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa?

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, December 2012, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  62. Respondent driven sampling—where we are and where should we be going?: Table 1

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, September 2012, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  63. Exploratory Space-Time Analyses of Rift Valley Fever in South Africa in 2008–2011

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, August 2012, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  64. HIV and STI Prevalence and Determinants among Male Migrant Workers in India

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2012, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  65. HIV Treatment as Prevention: Optimising the Impact of Expanded HIV Treatment Programmes

    Article • PLoS Medicine, July 2012, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  66. Exploring the Potential Impact of a Reduction in Partnership Concurrency on HIV Incidence in Rural Uganda

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Diseases, June 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  67. Evaluation of Respondent-driven Sampling

    Article • Epidemiology, January 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  68. Periodic Active Case Finding for TB: When to Look?

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2011, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  69. Antiretroviral Treatment Cohort Analysis Using Time-Updated CD4 Counts: Assessment of Bias with Different Analytic Methods

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2011, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  70. Attempting to explain heterogeneous HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa: potential role of historical changes in risk behaviour and male circumcision

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, September 2011, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  71. Mathematical models for the study of HIV spread and control amongst men who have sex with men

    Article • European Journal of Epidemiology, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  72. Population Density, Water Supply, and the Risk of Dengue Fever in Vietnam: Cohort Study and Spatial Analysis

    Article • PLoS Medicine, August 2011, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  73. Attaining realistic and substantial reductions in HIV incidence: model projections of combining microbicide and male circumcision interventions in rural Uganda

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, July 2011, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  74. Rift Valley Fever Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Control: What Have Models Contributed?

    Article • Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, June 2011, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Prof Richard G White

  75. Antiretroviral therapy and sexual behavior in Uganda: a cohort study

    Article • AIDS, March 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  76. Calibrating Models in Economic Evaluation

    Article • PharmacoEconomics, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  77. Evaluation of the role of location and distance in recruitment in respondent-driven sampling

    Article • International Journal of Health Geographics, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Richard G White

  78. The role of the natural epidemic dynamics and migration in explaining the course of the HIV epidemic in rural Uganda: a modelling study

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Richard G White

  79. Infectiousness of HIV-infected homosexual men in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy

    Article • AIDS, September 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  80. Polygyny and symmetric concurrency: comparing long-duration sexually transmitted infection prevalence using simulated sexual networks

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, July 2010, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  81. HIV transmission risk through anal intercourse: systematic review, meta-analysis and implications for HIV prevention

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, April 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Richard G White

  82. Do behavioural differences help to explain variations in HIV prevalence in adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa?

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, March 2010, Wiley

    Prof Richard G White

  83. Concurrency is more complex than it seems

    Article • AIDS, January 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  84. Strong Association Between In-Migration and HIV Prevalence in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Diseases, December 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  85. Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in High HIV Prevalence Settings: What Can Mathematical Modelling Contribute to Informed Decision Making?

    Article • PLoS Medicine, September 2009, PLOS

    Prof Richard G White

  86. A network-level explanation for the differences in HIV prevalence in South Africa's racial groups

    Article • African Journal of AIDS Research, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Richard G White

  87. Population-level effect of potential HSV2 prophylactic vaccines on HIV incidence in sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Vaccine, February 2009, Elsevier

    Prof Richard G White

  88. Low effectiveness of syndromic treatment services for curable sexually transmitted infections in rural South Africa

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, December 2008, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  89. Population-level effect of HSV-2 therapy on the incidence of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, October 2008, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  90. Male circumcision for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: who, what and when?

    Article • AIDS, September 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  91. Systematic review of orogenital HIV-1 transmission probabilities

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, July 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Richard G White

  92. Understanding the Impact of Male Circumcision Interventions on the Spread of HIV in Southern Africa

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2008, PLOS

    Dr Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad, Prof Richard G White

  93. Proportion of new HIV infections attributable to herpes simplex 2 increases over time: simulations of the changing role of sexually transmitted infections in sub-Saharan African HIV epidemics

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, August 2007, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  94. Understanding the differences between contrasting HIV epidemics in east and west Africa: results from a simulation model of the Four Cities Study

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, August 2007, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  95. Behaviour change and competitive exclusion can explain the diverging HIV-1 and HIV-2 prevalence trends in Guinea–Bissau

    Article • Epidemiology and Infection, June 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Richard G White

  96. Quantifying HIV-1 transmission due to contaminated injections

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2007, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Prof Richard G White

  97. HIV incidence and recent injections among adults in rural southwestern Uganda

    Article • AIDS, May 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  98. Empirical Observations Underestimate the Proportion of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections Attributable to Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Mwanza and Rakai Sexually Transmitted Disease Treatment Trials: Simulation Results

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Diseases, September 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  99. PERIOD AND COHORT DYNAMICS IN FERTILITY NORMS AT THE ONSET OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION IN KENYA 1978–1998

    Article • Journal of Biosocial Science, May 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Richard G White

  100. Risk of HIV-1 transmission for parenteral exposure and blood transfusion: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • AIDS, April 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  101. Amplified HIV Transmission during Early‐Stage Infection

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, February 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Richard G White

  102. Determinants of the Impact of Sexually Transmitted Infection Treatment on Prevention of HIV Infection: A Synthesis of Evidence from the Mwanza, Rakai, and Masaka Intervention Trials

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, February 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Richard G White

  103. Can Population Differences Explain the Contrasting Results of the Mwanza, Rakai, and Masaka HIV/Sexually Transmitted Disease Intervention Trials?

    Article • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, December 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  104. Commentary: What can we make of an association between human immunodeficiency virus prevalence and population mobility?

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, October 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Richard G White

  105. Comparison of STD prevalences in the Mwanza, Rakai, and Masaka trial populations: the role of selection bias and diagnostic errors

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, April 2003, BMJ

    Prof Richard G White

  106. DETERMINANTS OF COITAL FREQUENCY AMONG MARRIED WOMEN IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: THE ROLE OF FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING

    Article • Journal of Biosocial Science, October 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Richard G White

  107. Links between premarital sexual behaviour and extramarital intercourse: a multi-site analysis

    Article • AIDS, October 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White

  108. Monitoring the AIDS epidemic using HIV prevalence data among young women attending antenatal clinics: prospects and problems

    Article • AIDS, July 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof Richard G White