Our Team

Trenton White is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Public Health Liver Group at ISGlobal, where he supports research to improve systems of care for metabolic and liver diseases as well as HIV.

Previously, he worked for the World Bank to improve country systems to finance health services and protect individual and public payers from financial risk. He also previously worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he advised on health systems interventions for bilateral development programs in HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and maternal and child health.

Trenton White holds an MPH in Health Policy from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.

Lines of research

• Health systems and policy
• HIV/AIDS
• Risk, preparedness and resilience
• Stigma and discrimination
• Vaccine hesitancy
• COVID-19
  
  

Main publications

• Lazarus, JV, Romero D, Kopka CJ, Abdool Karim S, Abu Raddad LJ, Almeida G et al. A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat. Nature. 2022;611:332–345. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05398-2.
• Lazarus JV, Wyka K, White TM, et al. Revisiting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy around the world using data from 23 countries in 2021. Nat Commun. 2022;13(3801). doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31441-x. 
• Lazarus JV, Ratzan S, Palayew A, Billari FC, Binagwaho A, Kimball S, Larson HJ, Melegaro A, Rabin K, White TM, El-Mohandes A. COVID-SCORE: A global survey to assess public perceptions of government responses to COVID-19 (COVID-SCORE-10). PLoS One. 2020;15(10):e0240011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240011.
• Lazarus JV, Wyka K, White TM, et al. A survey of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 23 countries in 2022. Nat Med. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-02185-4.
• El-Mohandes A, White TM, Wyka K, et al. COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among adults in four major US metropolitan areas and nationwide. Sci Reports. 2021;11(1):1-12. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-00794-6.
• Harris M, Guy D, Picchio CA, White TM, Rhodes T, Lazarus JV. Conceptualising hepatitis C stigma: A thematic synthesis of qualitative research. Int J Drug Policy. 2021;96:103320. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103320.