Professor Crawford is a consultant paediatrician and vaccinologist, he is also recognised as an expert in vaccination of special risk groups. He is the Director of SAEFVIC (Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination In the Community) the Victorian Safety Service and the Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre (MVEC) where he leads a team of more than 30 staff members. Prof Crawford is Head of Immunisation Services at The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) and Chair of the Victorian Specialist Immunisation Services (VicSIS).
In 2021, Prof Crawford was appointed the Chair of the Australian Therapeutic Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), Ex-officio Member of COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments for Australia – Science and Industry Technical Advisory Group (SITAG), Member of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) COVID-19 vaccine Expert Advisory Group (EAG), Member of the Victorian Department of Health, COVID-19 vaccine Expert Advisory Group (EAG), member of Vaccination Special Interest Group (VACSIG)/ Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID), and the Victorian representative of TGA-JIC (Jurisdictional Immunisation Co-ordinators) vaccine safety meetings with Australian Government Department of Health. Internationally, Prof Crawford is the founding/steering committee member of the International Specialist Immunisation Services (InSIS) network in Canada, a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva and most recently appointed as the WPRO (Western Pacific Region) Representative of the GNN (Global NITAG Network) steering committee in WHO Geneva.
Professor Crawford is a consultant paediatrician and vaccinologist, he is also recognised as an expert in vaccination of special risk groups. He is the Director of SAEFVIC (Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination In the Community) the...
Professor Crawford is a consultant paediatrician and vaccinologist, he is also recognised as an expert in vaccination of special risk groups. He is the Director of SAEFVIC (Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination In the Community) the Victorian Safety Service and the Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre (MVEC) where he leads a team of more than 30 staff members. Prof Crawford is Head of Immunisation Services at The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) and Chair of the Victorian Specialist Immunisation Services (VicSIS).
In 2021, Prof Crawford was appointed the Chair of the Australian Therapeutic Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), Ex-officio Member of COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments for Australia – Science and Industry Technical Advisory Group (SITAG), Member of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) COVID-19 vaccine Expert Advisory Group (EAG), Member of the Victorian Department of Health, COVID-19 vaccine Expert Advisory Group (EAG), member of Vaccination Special Interest Group (VACSIG)/ Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID), and the Victorian representative of TGA-JIC (Jurisdictional Immunisation Co-ordinators) vaccine safety meetings with Australian Government Department of Health. Internationally, Prof Crawford is the founding/steering committee member of the International Specialist Immunisation Services (InSIS) network in Canada, a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva and most recently appointed as the WPRO (Western Pacific Region) Representative of the GNN (Global NITAG Network) steering committee in WHO Geneva.
Top Publications
Tuckerman, J, Misan, S, Salih, S, Joseph Xavier, B, Crawford, NW, Lynch, J, Marshall, HS.
Influenza vaccination: Uptake and associations in a cross-sectional study of children with special risk medical conditions.
Vaccine
36(52)
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8138 -8147
2018
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Crawford, NW, McMinn, A, Royle, J, Lazzaro, T, Danchin, M, Perrett, KP, Buttery, J, Elia, S, Orr, K, Wood, N.
Recurrence risk of a hypotonic hyporesponsive episode in two Australian specialist immunisation clinics.
Vaccine
36(41)
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6152 -6157
2018
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Wong, NX, Crawford, N, Lawrie, J, Hickman, J, Elia, S, Buttery, J.
Distribution of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Vaccine in Victoria 2013-2015..
Communicable Diseases Intelligence
42:
2018
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Britton, PN, Dale, RC, Blyth, CC, Macartney, K, Crawford, NW, Marshall, H, Clark, JE, Elliott, EJ, Webster, RI, Cheng, AC, et al.
Influenza-associated Encephalitis/Encephalopathy Identified by the Australian Childhood Encephalitis Study 2013–2015.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
36(11)
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1021 -1026
2017
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Clothier, HJ, Crawford, NW, Russell, M, Buttery, JP.
Adverse events following vaccination of older people may be under‐reported.
The Medical Journal of Australia
207(7)
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301 -302
2017
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