|  | ALICE D. WHITE is vice president of the Worldwide Epidemiology Department, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Research and Development. She heads a department of 70 epidemiologists, analysts and support staff, and she is responsible for research and development of 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) where she is currently adjunct associate professor. She has a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a master of science of public health, and doctor of philosophy 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 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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