Co-leader of The Infection Group
Co-director of One Health Aotearoa
Vice-Chancellor Designate
Email david.murdoch@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8253
Current roles
Professor David Murdoch is the co-leader of The Infection Group, the co-director of One Health Aotearoa, a Senior Associate in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and a clinical microbiologist at Canterbury Health Laboratories.
Professor Murdoch served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago from February 2022 to March 2023.
Research interests
David's main research interests are the epidemiology, diagnosis and prevention of respiratory tract infections, pneumococcal disease, legionellosis, bloodstream infections, and the role of vitamin D in infectious diseases.
He has a particular interest in the microbial aetiology of pneumonia, and is the Laboratory Director of the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) project which is focused on determining the causes of severe pneumonia in young children from developing countries. David has ongoing projects based in nine countries in Africa and Asia.
