Prof Christopher Whitty

Prof Christopher WhittyTel: 020 3447 9645
Fax: 020 7388 7645
Email: christopher.whitty@uclh.nhs.uk

Location:
University College Hospital; Hospital for Tropical Diseases

Specialities:
Infectious and tropical diseases, Acute Medical Unit (AMU)

Professional background

Qualified from Oxford in 1991, then trained in infectious diseases and tropical medicine in the UK, and has worked in various countries in Africa and Asia. Works as a consultant physician at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases with additional acute medicine on call in UCLH, and as Professor of International Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of International Development. Also works as a consultant epidemiologist for the HPA Malaria Reference Laboratory. Conducts research on various tropical diseases, especially malaria.

Research interests

Tropical medicine
International health
Public health

Publications

Recent reviews and editorials

Johnston V, Stockley JM, Dockrell D, Warrell D, Bailey R, Pasvol G, Klein J, Ustianowski A, Jones M, Beeching NJ, Brown M, Chapman AL, Sanderson F, Whitty CJM; British Infection Society and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Fever in returned travellers presenting in the United Kingdom: recommendations for investigation and initial management. J Infect. 2009;59:1-18.

Reithinger R, Kamya MR, Whitty CJM, Dorsey G, Vermund SH. Interaction of malaria and HIV in Africa. BMJ. 2009;338:b2141

Checkley AM, Chiodini PL, Dockrell DH, Bates I, Thwaites GE, Booth HL, Brown
M, Wright SG, Grant AD, Mabey DC, Whitty CJM, Sanderson F; British Infection
Society and The Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Eosinophilia in returning
travellers and migrants from the tropics: UK recommendations for investigation
and initial management. J Infect. 2009

Lalloo DG, Shingadia D, Pasvol G, Chiodini PL, Whitty CJM, Beeching NJ, Hill DR, Warrell DA, Bannister BA; HPA Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention in UK  Travellers. UK malaria treatment guidelines. J Infect. 2007;54:111-21.

Recent research papers

Staedke SG, Mwebaza N, Kamya MR, Clark T, Dorsey G, Rosenthal PJ, Whitty CJM. Evaluation of home management of malaria with artemether-lumefantrine in urban Ugandan children: a randomized trial. Lancet 2009;373:1623-31

Ansah EK, Narh-Bana S, Asiamah S, Dzordzordzi V, Biantey K, Dickson K, Gyapong JO, Koram KA, Greenwood BM, Mills A, Whitty CJM. Effect of removing direct payment for health care on utilisation and health outcomes in Ghanaian children: a randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2009;6(1):e1000007.

Smith AD, Bradley DJ, Smith V, Blaze M, Behrens RH, Chiodini PL, Whitty CJM. Imported malaria and high risk groups: observational study using UK surveillance data 1987-2006. BMJ. 2008;337:a120.

Nic Fhogartaigh C, Hughes H, Armstrong M, Herbert S, McGregor A, Ustianowski A, Whitty CJM. Falciparum malaria as a cause of fever in adult travellers returning to the United Kingdom: observational study of risk by geographical area. QJM. 2008 101(8):649-56.

Jeyaratnam D, Whitty CJM, Phillips K, Liu D, Orezzi C, Ajoku U, French GL. Impact of rapid screening tests on acquisition of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: cluster randomised crossover trial. BMJ. 2008;336:927-30.

Lubell Y, Reyburn H, Mbakilwa H, Mwangi R, Chonya S, Whitty CJM, Mills A. The impact of response to the results of diagnostic tests for malaria: cost-benefit analysis. BMJ. 2008;336:202-5.

Scarborough M, Gordon SB, Whitty CJM, French N, Njalale Y, Chitani A, Peto TE,  Lalloo DG, Zijlstra EE. Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis in adults in sub-Saharan Africa. N Engl J Med. 2007;357:2441-50.

Leslie T, Mayan MI, Hasan MA, Safi MH, Klinkenberg E, Whitty CJM, Rowland M. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, chlorproguanil-dapsone, or chloroquine for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Afghanistan and Pakistan: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2007;297:2201-9.

Reyburn H, Mbakilwa H, Mwangi R, Mwerinde O, Olomi R, Drakeley C, Whitty CJM.  Rapid diagnostic tests compared with malaria microscopy for guiding outpatient treatment of febrile illness in Tanzania: randomised trial. BMJ. 2007;334:403.

Al-Taiar A, Jaffar S, Assabri A, Al-Habori M, Azazy A, Al-Mahdi N, Ameen K, Greenwood BM, Whitty CJM. Severe malaria in children in Yemen: two site observational study. BMJ. 2006;333:827.

Inojosa WO, Augusto I, Bisoffi Z, Josenado T, Abel PM, Stich A, Whitty CJM. Diagnosing human African trypanosomiasis in Angola using a card agglutination test: observational study of active and passive case finding strategies. BMJ. 2006;332:1479.

Wiseman V, Kim M, Mutabingwa TK, Whitty CJM. Cost-effectiveness study of three antimalarial drug combinations in Tanzania. PLoS Med. 2006;3(10):e373.

Mutabingwa TK, Anthony D, Heller A, Hallett R, Ahmed J, Drakeley C, Greenwood BM, Whitty CJM. A randomised, four-arm effectiveness trial of amodiaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine+amodiaquine, artemether-lumefantrine and amodiaquine+artesunate for outpatient treatment of malaria in Tanzanian children. Lancet 2005; 365:1474-80.