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Group SAEFVIC

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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

  • Kiraly, N, Koplin, JJ, Crawford, NW, Bannister, S, Flanagan, KL, Holt, PG, Gurrin, LC, Lowe, AJ, Tang, MLK, Wake, M, et al. Timing of routine infant vaccinations and risk of food allergy and eczema at one year of age. Allergy 71(4) : 541 -549 2016
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  • Britton, PN, Dale, RC, Nissen, MD, Crawford, N, Elliott, E, Macartney, K, Khandaker, G, Booy, R, Jones, CA. Parechovirus Encephalitis and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes. Pediatrics 137(2) : e20152848 2016
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  • Britton, P, Dale, R, Booy, R, Blyth, C, Crawford, N, Marshall, H, Elliott, E, Jones, C. Influenza-Associated Neurological Disease: Cases Identified by the Australian Childhood Encephalitis (ACE) Study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2(suppl_1) : 978 2015
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  • Forbes, TA, McMinn, A, Crawford, N, Leask, J, Danchin, M. Vaccination uptake by vaccine-hesitant parents attending a specialist immunization clinic in Australia. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 11(12) : 2895 -2903 2015
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  • Pillsbury, A, Cashman, P, Leeb, A, Regan, A, Westphal, D, Snelling, T, Blyth, C, Crawford, N, Wood, N, Macartney, K. Real-time safety surveillance of seasonal influenza vaccines in children, Australia, 2015.. Eurosurveillance 20(43) : 2015
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