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Contact Details

Email
john.crump@otago.ac.nz
Position
McKinlay Professor of 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

Martin, L. B., Tack, B., Marchello, C. S., Sikorski, M. J., Owusu-Dabo, E., Nyirenda, T., … Crump, J. A. (2024). Vaccine value profile for invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella disease. Vaccine, 42(19, Suppl. 1), S101-S124. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.04.045 Journal - Research Article

Baleivanualala, S. C., Matanitobua, S., Soqo, V., Smita, S., Limaono, J., Sharma, S. D., … Crump, J. A., & Ussher, J. E. (2024). Molecular and clinical epidemiology of carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacterales in Fiji: A multicentre prospective observational study. Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific, 47(101095). doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101095 Journal - Research Article

Moorthy, G. S., Rubach, M. P., Maze, M. J., Refuerzo, R. P., Shirima, G. M., Lukambagire, A. S., … Bowhay, T. R., … Crump, J. A., & Halliday, J. E. B. (2024). Prevalence and risk factors for Q fever, spotted fever group rickettsioses, and typhus group rickettsioses in a pastoralist community of northern Tanzania, 2016-2017. Tropical Medicine & International Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13980 Journal - Research Article

Kim, J.-H., Tack, B., Fiorino, F., Pettini, E., Marchello, C., Jacobs, J., Crump, J., … and VACC-iNTS consortium. (2024). Examining geospatial and temporal distribution of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella; disease occurrence in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and modelling study. BMJ Open, 14(3), e080501. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080501 Journal - Research Article

Marks, F., Im, J., Park, S. E., Pak, G. D., Jeon, H. J., Wandji Nana, L. R., … Crump, J. A., … Rakotozandrindrainy, R. (2024). Incidence of typhoid fever in Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, and Nigeria (the Severe Typhoid in Africa programme): A population-based study. Lancet Global Health, 12(4), e599-e610. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00007-X Journal - Research Article

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