Professor Nicholas White
BIOGRAPHY
Nick White was a Professor of Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University Thailand and at the University of Oxford, and a consultant physician in acute general medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. He was Chair of the WWARN Board until 2016, and remained a member of the IDDO Board until his death in 2026.
Professor White also co-chaired the World Health Organization antimalarial treatment guidelines committee and the WHO Global Malaria Programme case management cluster. He served on the editorial advisory boards of international journals including The Lancet and PLoS Medicine, and contributed to over 1000 peer reviewed scientific publications and wrote over 50 book chapters during his long career.
Nick White began his work in Thailand in 1980 with the Wellcome Trust Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, a collaborative research programme between Mahidol and Oxford Universities. He was appointed Director of the Thailand Unit in 1986, and was later Chair of the Wellcome Trust SE Asian Tropical Medicine Research Programmes.
Nick White’s contribution to tropical medicine and global health were recognised with a UK Knighthood in 2017. His research interests included the epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment of malaria, melioidosis, typhoid, leptospirosis, dengue, haemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis and tuberculosis.