 ALICE D. WHITE is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina. She retired in 2010 from her position as vice president of the Worldwide Epidemiology Department, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Research and Development, where she headed a department of 70 epidemiologists, analysts and support staff, and was responsible for epidemiologic strategy, use of observational data across the development continuum to support disease understanding and decision-making, and for the management of large post-marketing safety studies. Before moving to the pharmaceutical industry in 1990, she held a position as assistant professor in the Epidemiology Department at University of North Carolina School of Public Health (1988–90). She has a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a master of science of public health, and doctorate in epidemiology, also from the University of North Carolina. She is past president of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health Alumni Association, past alumni representative on the University of North Carolina School of Public Health Curriculum Committee and on the University of North Carolina School of Public Health IRB, and a past member of the Steering Committee of the School’s Program on Public Health Outcomes. She is currently a member of the UNC Public Health Foundation Board. She was a member of the Orange County, North Carolina, Board of Health from 2000 to 2006, and she was its chair from 2003 to 2004. Dr. White has authored numerous publications and scientific presentations, primarily in the cardiovascular and HIV epidemiology areas.
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