Associate Professor Nigel Crawford is a General Paediatrician and Medical Head of Immunisation Services, at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He is also Director of SAEFVIC (Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination in the Community), a national vaccine safety and clinical immunisation research group based at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, as well as the Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre.
A/Prof Crawford has a research interest in vaccine safety, special risk groups and immunisation policy. He has been a member of the Australian Technical and Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) since 2014 and is Chair of a number of working groups, including for COVID-19 Working Group. He is also a member of the Australian Regional Immunisation Alliance (ARIA).