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Professor John Crump is Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Global Health, McKinlay Professor of Global Health, and Co-Director of the Centre for International Health in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences at the University of Otago. He earned his MB ChB in 1993 and MD from the University of Otago Medical School. He trained as an infectious diseases physician and medical microbiologist at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand, Royal Free Hospital in London, Canberra Hospital in Australia, Duke University Medical Center in the United States, and through the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2001 to 2011, he directed a collaborative health research and capacity-building programme in northern Tanzania between Duke University and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre. He joined the University of Otago in 2011 in his current roles. He holds fellowships of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FRCPA), Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), and Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Professor Crump's research centres on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases in low-resource settings, with emphasis on causes of fever in the tropics, invasive bacterial diseases such as salmonelloses (typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, and nontyphoidal Salmonella invasive disease), bacterial zoonoses including leptospirosis, and enteric infections. His contributions have highlighted malaria overdiagnosis, identified prevalent non-malarial pathogens, catalysed changes in global health policy and practice, and advanced vaccine development and deployment. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and serves on leadership groups of the Otago Global Health Institute, provides advice to the World Health Organization, and mentors early-career researchers in low- and middle-income countries. His achievements include election as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2026, the University of Otago Distinguished Research Medal in 2024, the Chalmers Medal from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2022 (the first New Zealander recipient), and the Bailey K. Ashford Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2012.
Four University of Otago professors—Tim Anderson, Michael Baker, John Crump, and Peter Dearden—elected RSNZ Fellows, recognizing leadership in neurology, epidemiology, tropical diseases, and developmental biology.
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