John Crump

Crump was born in Oamaru, New Zealand, raised in on a mixed sheep, beef, and cropping farm at Okaramio, Marlborough, attending Havelock School,[5] Havelock, and Marlborough Boys’ College,[6] Blenheim. He graduated MB ChB in 1993 and received his MD[7][8] in 2012 for research on clinical and laboratory aspects of HIV in Tanzania from the University of Otago Medical School. Crump trained as both an internist in infectious diseases and as a pathologist in medical microbiology, at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand; the Royal Free Hospital, London; the Canberra Hospital, Australia; Duke University Medical Center; and as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP, 1999), a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FRCPA, 2004), a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP, 2009) of the United Kingdom, and a diplomate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (DTM&H, 1995).[1][9]

Crump is a leading researcher on the diagnosis, management, and prevention of infectious causes of fever in the tropics other than malaria.[10] He has advocated for a comprehensive approach to investigating febrile illness as a necessary progression from the traditional disease-specific approach in tropical medicine.[11] He has contributed to describing the problem of malaria over-diagnosis,[12] and also to appreciation of range of neglected causes of fever including invasive bacterial diseases,[13][14] as well as bacterial zoonoses such as leptospirosis and Q fever.[15][16][17] Much of his research is trans-disciplinary involving close collaboration between human health experts, veterinarians, ecologists, and social scientists, and following the so-called 'One Health' approach.[18][19] He has led work characterizing the burden of typhoid fever,[20][21] paratyphoid fever,[22][21] and invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella disease[23][24] that has contributed to diagnosis, management, and prevention efforts for these diseases, including vaccine deployment[25] and vaccine development.[26] He served as expert advisor on invasive Salmonella disease to the World Health Organization (WHO) Foodborne Diseases Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG),[27] and as a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization Working Group on Typhoid Vaccines.[28]

Crump has a research interest in ethics in global health training, spurred by concern for the unintended consequences of expansion of short-term global health training opportunities in low-resource areas.[29] With Dr. Jeremy Sugarman, Crump Co-Chaired the Wellcome Trust-funded Working Group on Ethics Guidelines for Global Health Training (WEIGHT) that developed initial guidelines for responsible global health training programs.[30]

Crump was awarded the 2005 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention James H. Steele Veterinary Public Health Award[31] for outstanding contributions in the investigation, control, or prevention of zoonotic diseases or other animal-related human health problems. In 2012, Crump received the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Bailey K. Ashford Medal[32] for distinguished work in tropical medicine.

As of August 2020, Crump had published 250 scientific manuscripts, his work had been cited >42,000 times, and his H-index was 74.[10] Crump is a 2020 cross-field Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher with multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.

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