Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH

Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH is the associate medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the country’s largest grassroots mental health organization. She is an assistant professor of psychiatry and Vice Chair of Education at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Crawford also provides outpatient psychiatric care to children and adolescents at Boston Medical Center. Additionally, she is the medical director for the Boston Public Health Commission’s School Based Clinician Program, providing direct guidance on how best to support the socioemotional wellbeing of children within the Boston public school system.

On behalf of NAMI, Dr. Crawford regularly engages with the public, as well as with organizations, companies, healthcare providers, and fellow clinicians and researchers. She is a trusted source of child mental health expertise for major media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, the Boston Globe, NBC, and Medscape. She has made on-camera appearances for the Today Show, BBC, and local news affiliates of CBS, Fox, and ABC.