Red X iconGreen tick iconYellow tick icon

Contact Details

Email
john.crump@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Global Health
Qualifications
MB ChB MD DTM&H FRACP FRCPA FRCP
Research summary
Infectious diseases in low-resource settings
Teaching
  • Global health
  • Global health ethics
Memberships
  • Fellow, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Fellow, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • Member, American Society of Microbiology
Clinical
  • Infectious diseases
  • Medical microbiology

Research

My research is on the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and management of major infectious causes of illness and death in low- and middle-income countries. I serve as the McKinlay Professor of Global Health and Co-Director of the Otago Global Health Institute, one of 12 flagship research centres of the University of Otago.

I graduated MB ChB and MD from the University of Otago in 1993 and 2011, respectively, and trained in both infectious diseases (FRACP, FRCP, DTM&H) and medical microbiology (FRCPA) in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, and the United States.

My specific research interest is in the syndrome of fever and its management in low-resource areas, especially invasive bacterial diseases including the invasive salmonelloses. I lead efforts on global burden of disease estimates for both typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella with related work on diarrhoeal diseases.

With partners in Myanmar and Tanzania, I lead research on causes of fever, febrile deaths, and infectious disease at that are major causes of both human febrile illness and production loss in animals. My work on these infections includes disease burden estimation, evaluation of new diagnostics, clinical management studies, risk factor research aimed at prevention interventions, and economic assessments. Goals of my work are to improve the health of individuals and populations in low- and middle-income countries through research and training in collaboration with local partners.

Publications

Williams, R. J., Brintz, B. J., Nicholson, W. L., Crump, J. A., Moorthy, G., Maro, V. P., … Rubach, M. P. (2025). Derivation and internal validation of a clinical prediction model for diagnosis of spotted fever group rickettsioses in northern Tanzania. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf100 Journal - Research Article

Shao, E. R., Tan, C. W., Mani, S., Anderson, D. E., Lwezaula, B. F., Mmbaga, B. T., … Crump, J. A., … Wang, L.-F. (2025). Seroprevalence and risk factors for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus exposure among febrile patients in northern Tanzania. Tropical Medicine & International Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/tmi.14082 Journal - Research Article

Bowhay, T. R., Rubach, M. P., Mendes, Â. J. F., Nicholson, W. L., Perniciaro, J. L., Maze, M. J., … Sharples, K. J., … Crump, J. A. (2024). Risk factors for spotted fever group rickettsioses in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11(12), ofae664. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae664 Journal - Research Article

Ngocho, J. S., Liu, J., Kalengo, N. H., Kipengele, A. H., Maro, A., Mujage, B., … Maze, M. J., … Crump, J. A., … Rubach, M. P. (2024). TaqMan Array Card real-time polymerase chain reaction panel to detect pathogens in whole blood of febrile inpatients in northern Tanzania, 2016-2019. Tropical Medicine & International Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/tmi.14083 Journal - Research Article

Bonnewell, J. P., Crump, J. A., Egger, J. R., Sakita, F. M., Hertz, J. T., Kilonzo, K. G., … Rubach, M. P. (2024). Sepsis in northern Tanzania: A prospective observational study of clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes for adolescents and adults with sepsis. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae722 Journal - Research Article

Back to top