Professor John A. Crump

John A. Crump, MB ChB, MD, DTM&H, FRACP, FRCPA, FRCP

John Crump is Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Global Health and Co-Director, Centre for International Health, University of Otago; and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Global Health at Duke University. He graduated from the University of Otago Medical School in 1993 and trained as both an internist in infectious diseases and as a pathologist in medical microbiology, training at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand; the Royal Free Hospital, London; the Canberra Hospital, Australia; Duke University Medical Center; and with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom, and a diplomate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His main interests are in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases in low-resource areas, with particular focus on febrile illness; invasive bacterial diseases especially the salmonelloses; bacterial zoonoses; and enteric infections. He also works ethics issues in global health, including for global health training.