Richard White Email & Phone Number

Oslo, Norway

- Project manager for the Norwegian Syndromic Surveillance System (NorSySS), a surveillance system of infectious diseases based on consultations with general practitioners and out-of-hours primary care facilities. Complex statistical analyses are automatically run for all locations in Norway, producing reports and alerting various stakeholders.- Technology in use includes:* Kubernetes.* Docker.* CI/CD (GoCD/ArgoCD).* Apache Airflow.* Core Surveillance 9 (cs9)- Surveils 80+ syndromes.

Oslo, Norway

- Tech lead for Sykdomspulsen (8 person team), a real-time analysis and disease surveillance system. Complex statistical analyses were automatically run for all locations in Norway, producing reports and alerting various stakeholders.- Technology in use included: * Kubernetes * Docker/Podman * CI/CD (Jenkins/GoCD/ArgoCD) * Apache Airflow * R/Python- Surveilled: All cause/cause-specific/attributable mortality, Covid-19, influenza, tuberculosis, IPD, meningococcal disease, pertussis, antibiotic use and healthcare associated infection, gastritis, vaccine associated mortality, etc.- Interactive website for municipal health authorities.- APIs for internal/external use.- 1 000 000+ analyses per day.- 1000+ automatic reports (pdf/excel/email/sms) per day.

Oslo, Norway

- Advised outbreak teams, researchers, and students in statistical concepts, methods, and programming.- Developed surveillance reports (and all relevant infrastructure and code for signal processing) in the format of interactive websites for: * Gastritis and upper-respiratory outbreaks using the syndromic surveillance registry. * Outbreaks using the notifiable disease registry (MSIS). * Excessive mortality using the death registry (DÅR).- Developed statistical protocol for a 20,000 person longitudinal study regarding Norwegian water usage.- Modelled the 2014 Ebola outbreak to estimate the likelihood of a case flying to Norway and the subsequent usefulness of entry screening in Oslo airport.- Modelled the burden of HCV in Norwegian people who inject drugs.- Statistician on the data monitoring committee (DMC) for the: * PEEP RCT in Haydom, Tanzania. * Safer Births Moyo RCT in Muhimbili, Tanzania.

Oslo, Norway

- Developed database management structures to allow for the construction of analysis datasets from multiple disparate sources (e.g. written questionnaires, lab toxicant concentrations, Illumina microbial data)- Investigated the relationship between seasonality, sunlight, and suicide- Investigated the relationship between gun ownership and completed suicide in the US, highlighting the lack of method substitution where gun ownership is less prevalent

Overseeing the collaboration between statisticians, epidemiologists, and researchers, working on the development of R packages used for disease surveillance.

- Head statistician for a 1800-household multi-sector nationwide needs assessment, in response to the complex humanitarian emergency in Sri Lanka.- Developed statistical protocol for all sectors, and analyzed most of the data

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

- Head statistician for a 3100-household multi-sector nationwide needs assessment, in response to the complex humanitarian emergency in Sri Lanka.- Developed statistical protocol for all sectors, questions for the health sector, and analyzed most of the data.

Ramallah, West Bank

- Trained local staff in data management and statistical programming for the national maternal and child health registry.- Used raw survey data to validate indicators from the newly formed national healthcare worker registry.

Beira, Sofala, Mozambique

- Responded to a cholera outbreak.- Managed a real-time surveillance system for people with diarrhea visiting Red Cross oral rehydration points as a part of the response to the cholera outbreak in Beira caused by Cyclone Idai.- Liaised with the MOH on issues of interest, such as serious cases of diarrhea and self-reported bloody diarrhea.

Kambia, Sierra Leone

- Responded to an Ebola outbreak.- Developed and managed a real-time surveillance system for the Ebola outbreak in Kambia, linking the national emergency number, Ebola holding centers, Ebola community care centers, Ebola treatment centers, and burials.- Geocoded and mapped relevant outbreak data (alerts, cases, border crossings).- Generated daily sitreps using GIS data and epidemiological information from the surveillance database.- Trained and supervised international and national staff in the use of the Kambian Ebola surveillance system.

Geneva

- Collected cause of death data from multiple national cause of death registries into a database and calculated avoidable mortality estimates for disease groups over time, comparing trends in high income versus developing countries.- Produced disease prevalence estimates for the Global Burden of Disease project (GBD 2010), most notably for vision loss, micronutrient deficiency, and stunting for all UN member nations, in all sex/age combinations, from 1990 to 2010.

- Liaised with NGOs from South Africa, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, and Peru to gain access to MDR-TB datasets, then managed, cleaned, and analysed the datasets- Provided recommendations for the WHO Guidelines for the Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (3rd edition) via multi-cohort survival analyses to determine factors affecting detection of MDR-TB and survival in a programmatic context.

Wollongong, Australia

- Fundamentals of Biostatistics- Statistics for the Natural Sciences- Mathematics for Engineers- Procedural Programming

Wollongbar, Nsw, Australia

- Analyzed agricultural experiments and consulted with clients regarding statistical projects- Aided in response efforts to local area flooding by analyzing meteorological data

Phd, Biostatistics

A.M, Biostatistics

Frank Knox fellow.

One Year Program (Årsstudium), Nordic Languages And Litterature

Honours, Applied Statistics

First Class Honours

Bachelor, Applied Statistics