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David Murdoch

Co-leader of The Infection Group
Co-director of One Health Aotearoa
Vice-Chancellor Designate

MB ChB, MD (Otago), MSc (Lond), DTM&H (Liv), FRACP, FRCPA, FFSc(RCPA)

Email david.murdoch@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 556 7791

Current roles

Professor David Murdoch is the co-leader of The Infection Group, the co-director of One Health Aotearoa, a Senior Associate in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and a clinical microbiologist at Canterbury Health Laboratories.

Professor Murdoch served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago from February 2022 to March 2023.

Research interests

David's main research interests are the epidemiology, diagnosis and prevention of respiratory tract infections, pneumococcal disease, legionellosis, bloodstream infections, and the role of vitamin D in infectious diseases.

He has a particular interest in the microbial aetiology of pneumonia, and is the Laboratory Director of the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) project which is focused on determining the causes of severe pneumonia in young children from developing countries. David has ongoing projects based in nine countries in Africa and Asia.

Publications

Murdoch, D. R., & Bloomfield, A. R. (2024). Pandemic prevention, preparedness and response: Are we better off now than pre-COVID? New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 137(1604), 9-12. Retrieved from https://nzmj.org.nz/ Journal - Research Other

Jun, H., Chambers, S. T., Williman, J., Slow, S., Murdoch, D. R., & Scott-Thomas, A. (2024). The inhibitory effect of copper, zinc, and manganese on Legionella longbeachae in potting mix leachate. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 77, ovae081. doi: 10.1093/lambio/ovae081 Journal - Research Article

Maze, M. J., Williman, J., Anstey, R., Best, E., Bhally, H., Bryce, A., … Dummer, J., Epton, M., … Hancox, R. J., … Murdoch, D. R., … Raymond, N., … Walls, T., … Wright, K. (2024). Evaluation of risk prediction scores for adults hospitalised with COVID-19 in a highly vaccinated population, Aotearoa New Zealand 2022. IJID Regions. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.ijregi.2024.100424 Journal - Research Article

Taylor, A., Best, E. J., Walls, T., Webb, R., Bhally, H., Bryce, A., … Dummer, J., … Hancox, R. J., … Murdoch, D. R., … Williman, J., … Maze, M. J. (2024). COVID-19 related hospitalisations amongst Aotearoa, New Zealand children during the Omicron era of SARS-CoV-2. IJID Regions, 12, 100408. doi: 10.1016/j.ijregi.2024.100408 Journal - Research Article

Kandasamy, R., Gurung, M., Shrestha, S., Gautam, M. C., Kelly, S., Thorson, S., … Murdoch, D. R., … Shrestha, S. (2024). Decline in pneumococcal vaccine serotype carriage, multiple-serotype carriage, and carriage density in Nepalese children after PCV10 introduction: A pre-post comparison study. Vaccine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.05.018 Journal - Research Article

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