Rosie completed her undergraduate medical training at Cambridge University and University College London. She completed an MSc in Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and a DPhil (University of Oxford).
As part of an Academic Clinical Fellowship at the University of Oxford, Rosie studied the concentration of antibodies towards Haemophilus influenzae type b in the blood of children aged 0-5 years at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya.
Rosie was then Principal Investigator of a birth cohort study and cross-sectional survey of under-fives, also in Kilifi, Kenya, investigating why many infants and children in tropical low- and middle-income settings have chronic intestinal inflammation and stunting without symptomatic diarrhoea.
Rosie has also co-led fieldwork and analysis on a multi-site census study of stunting and acute malnutrition and their risk factors amongst under-fives in varied livelihood settings across Kenya.
Rosie is now a Clinical Lecturer in the Centre for Neonatal and Paediatric Infection at St George's, University of London. She aims to apply next generation sequencing and bioinformatics techniques to assess enteric colonisation with Antimicrobial-Resistant (AMR) bacteria and risk factors for this amongst infants in varied global settings.
Rosie is also a paediatrician, training in Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, with most of her clinical work undertaken at St George's hospital.
Crane RJ, Parker EPK, Fleming S, Gwela A, Gumbi W, Ngoi JM, de Laurent Z, Nyatichi E, Ngari M, Wambua J, Uhlig HH, Berkley J. Cessation of exclusive breastfeeding and seasonality, but not small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, are associated with environmental enteric dysfunction: A birth cohort study amongst infants in rural Kenya. eClinicalMedicine; 2022;47:101403
Muriuki JM, Mentzer AJ, Webb EL, Morovat A, Kimita W, Ndungu FM, Macharia AW, Crane RJ, Berkley JA, Lule SA, Cutland C, Sirima SB, Diarra A, Tiono AB, Bejon P, Madhi SA, Hill AVS, Prentice AM, Suchdev PS, Elliott AM, Williams TH, Atkinson SH. Estimating the burden of iron deficiency among African children. BioMed Central Medicine; 2020;18(1):31
Mandal RK, Crane RJ, Berkley JA, Gumbi W, Wambua J, Ngoi JM, Ndungu FM, Schmidt NW. Longitudinal analysis of infant stool bacteria communities before and after acute febrile malaria and artemether/lumefantrine treatment. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2019; 220(4): 687-698
Crane RJ, Berkley JA. Progress on growth faltering. Lancet Global Health 2017; 5(2): 125-6
Hammitt LH, Crane RJ, Karani A, Mutuku A, Morpeth SC, Burbidge P, Goldblatt D, Kamau T, Shairif S, Mturi N, Scott JAG. Effect of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination without a booster dose on invasive H influenzae type b disease, nasopharyngeal carriage, and population immunity in Kilifi, Kenya: a 15-year regional surveillance study. Lancet Global Health 2016; 4(3): e185-94
Crane RJ, Jones KD, Berkley JA. Environmental enteric dysfunction: an overview. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2015; 36(1 Suppl): S76-87
Yates T, Crane R, Burnett A. Rights and the reality of healthcare charging in the United Kingdom. Medicine, Conflict and Survival 2007; 23(4): 297-304