Christine M. Crawford, M.D., MPH
Associate Medical Director
Senior Leadership Team
Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH is the associate medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) which is 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 is the author of NAMI’s second book, You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Mental Health which is a comprehensive, compassionate, and practical resource for anyone concerned about a child’s mental health.
She also provides outpatient psychiatric care to children and adolescents at Boston Medical Center. Additionally, Dr. Crawford serves as a psychiatry consultant for the Boston Public Health Commission’s School Based Clinician Program in which she provides direct guidance on how best to support the socioemotional wellbeing of children within the Boston Public School System.
On behalf of NAMI, she regularly engages with the public, 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.
