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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

  • Villanueva, P, Crawford, NW, Croda, MG, Collopy, S, Jardim, BA, de Almeida Pinto Jardim, T, Manning, L, Lucas, M, Marshall, H, Prat-Aymerich, C, et al. Factors influencing scar formation following Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination. Heliyon 9(6) : e15821 2023
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  • Lopez, L, Burgner, D, Glover, C, Carr, J, Clark, J, Boast, A, Vasilunas, N, McMullan, B, Francis, JR, Bowen, AC, et al. Corrigendum to “Lower risk of multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) with the Omicron variant” [The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 27 (2022) 100604]. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 35: 100808 2023
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  • de Boer, HH, Crawford, NW, Parsons, S. Commentary on: “Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination” by C. Schwab et al.. Clinical Research in Cardiology 1 -3 2023
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  • Villanueva, P, Crawford, NW, Croda, MG, Collopy, S, Jardim, BA, de Almeida Pinto Jardim, T, Manning, L, Lucas, M, Marshall, H, Prat-Aymerich, C, et al. Factors influencing scar formation following Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination. Heliyon 9(4) : e15241 2023
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  • Cheng, DR, Schrader, S, McMinn, A, Crawford, NW, Tosif, S, Mcnab, S, Steer, AC. Paediatric admissions with SARS-CoV-2 during the Delta and Omicron waves: an Australian single-centre retrospective study. BMJ Paediatrics Open 7(1) : e001874 2023
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