Rate My Professor Shruti Murthy

Dr. Shruti Murthy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Health, Health Sciences Division, University of Otago. Her research encompasses evidence synthesis, meta-research, and mixed-methods research, focusing on infectious diseases such as typhoid fever and non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica. She is affiliated with the Otago Global Health Institute and actively participates in conferences and policy discussions related to global health.

Shruti Murthy joined the University of Otago in October 2022. Previously, she was a Dr. T.M.A. Pai Fellow and PhD scholar at the Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Her key publications include 'Complications and mortality of typhoid fever: an updated global systematic review and meta-analysis' (The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2025), updating evidence on typhoid outcomes; 'Global typhoid fever incidence: an updated systematic review with meta-analysis' (2025); and 'Prevalence and distribution of non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica in Africa' (Epidemiology and Infection, 2023). She has shared datasets and R scripts for her typhoid research via the University of Otago's OUR Archive.

Additional contributions feature preprints such as 'An updated systematic review on antimicrobial resistance patterns of Salmonella Typhi' (2025), 'Predicting Salmonella Typhi incidence using prevalence metrics from sentinel studies' (2026), and 'Mortality, morbidity, and post-operative complications of typhoid intestinal perforation' (2024). Earlier publications from Manipal include 'Risk factors of neonatal sepsis in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (PLoS ONE, 2019) and a protocol for systematic review of economic evaluations in tobacco control (2017). Murthy has presented at the Otago Global Health Institute 15th Annual Conference, 2024 Otago Foreign Policy School on evidence for typhoid vaccine introduction, and international consultations like IVI-WHO on Salmonella vaccines and Coalition Against Typhoid meetings.