Dale Whittington

Professor at University of North Carolina / Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School

Schools

  • Alliance Manchester Business School
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Alliance Manchester Business School

Dr. Dale Whittington is a Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, City & Regional Planning, and Public Policy, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1986, he has worked for the World Bank and other international agencies on the development and application of techniques for estimating the economic value of environmental resources in developing countries, with a particular focus on water and sanitation and vaccine policy issues. He has designed and carried out valuation studies in Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine.

His current research focuses on the following four areas: 1) the development of planning approaches and methods for the design of improved water and sanitation systems for the rapidly growing cities of Asia, 2) the design of municipal water tariffs in developing countries, 3) estimating the economic benefits of vaccines for malaria, typhoid, cholera, and HIV/AIDS, and 4) Nile water management issues. Dr. Whittington is the author (with Prof. Duncan MacRae) of a graduate textbook on public policy analysis, Expert Advice for Policy Choice.

EDUCATION

  • PhD, Business, Engineering, and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, 1980
  • MSc, Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1978
  • MPA, Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon Baines Johnston School of Public Affairs, 1976
  • AB, Economics, Brown University, 1972

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

  • Environmental economics
  • Environmental valuation
  • Water and sanitation policy and planning in developing countries

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Effect of travel distance on household demand for typhoid vaccines: Implications for planning. Baiqing Dong, Dohyeong Kim, Donald Lauria, Christine Poulos, Dale Whittington (2014). International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 29(3), 261-276.

PhoPQ regulates acidic glycerophospholipid content of the Salmonella Typhimurium outer membrane. Russell Bishop, Zachary Dalebroux, Susana Matamouros, Samuel Miller, Dale Whittington (2014). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(5), 1963-1968.

Sphingosine, a modulator of human translesion DNA polymerase activity. Sharath Balakrishna, Mary Emond, Fumio Hanaoka, Ashwini Kamath-Loeb, Lawrence Loeb, Chikahide Masutani, Susumu Nishimura, Takayoshi Okabe, Jiang-Cheng Shen, Dale Whittington (2014). Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289(31), 21663-21672.

Water resources planning under climate change: Assessing the robustness of real options for the Blue Nile. Marc Jeuland, Dale Whittington (2014). Water Resources Research, 50(3), 2086-2107.

Effect of travel distance on household demand for typhoid vaccines: Implications for planning. Baiqing Dong, Dohyeong Kim, Donald Lauria, Christine Poulos, Dale Whittington (2013). International Journal of Health Planning and Management.

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