Selected Publications

• Blacklock C, Mayon-White R, Coad N, and Thompson M (2011) Which symptoms and clinical features correctly identify serious respiratory infection in children attending a paediatric assessment unit? Arch Dis Child, 96(8):708-14.

• Chi Ching-Chi, Mayon-White Richard T, and Wojnarowska Fenella T (2011) Safety of topical corticosteroids in pregnancy: a population-based cohort study. J Invest Dermatol, 131(4):884-91.

• Haj-Hassan Tanya A, Thompson Matthew J, Mayon-White Richard T, Ninis Nelly, Harnden Anthony, Smith Lindsay F, Perera Rafael, and Mant David C (2011) Which early 'red flag' symptoms identify children with meningococcal disease in primary care? Br J Gen Pract, 61(584):97-104.

• Harnden Anthony, Mayon-White Richard, Perera Rafael, Yeates David, Goldacre Michael, and Burgner David (2009) Kawasaki disease in England: ethnicity, deprivation, and respiratory pathogens. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 28(1):21-24.

• Thompson M, Harnden A, Perera R, Mayon-White R, Smith L, McLeod D, and Mant D (2009) Deriving temperature and age appropriate heart rate centiles for children with acute infections. Arch Dis Child, 94(5):361-5.

After working for 30 years as an infectious disease epidemiologist in the NHS and the PHLS (now the Health Protection Agency), Dick now pursues his research interests in childhood infections (the OXCIS programme), infection control in primary care, and infection in asplenic people. 

He chairs the Board of Thames Valley Comprehensive Local Research Network and the Oxford Tropical Research Ethics Committee.