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Professor Nick Crofts
Nossal Institute for Global Health
Level 4, Alan Gilbert Building
Corner of Barry and Grattan Streets (161 Barry St)
The University of Melbourne
Carlton, Victoria, 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 1998
Fax: +61 3 9347 6872
Email: nick.crofts@unimelb.edu.au
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Professor Nick Crofts spent twelve years in Community Medicine in Collingwood, then 19 years at Fairfield Hospital and the Macfarlane Burnet Institute, where he was instrumental in founding Centres in Harm Reduction, International Health and Research into Population Health. His research career has concentrated on the epidemiology and control of blood-borne viruses, especially Hepatitis C among injecting drug users and prisoners in Australia, for which he was awarded an NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship. His major programmatic and policy focus has been in developing harm reduction responses to HIV epidemics among injecting drug users in almost every country in Asia, where he was instrumental in the formation of the UNAIDS-endorsed Asian Harm Reduction Network, in production of The Manual for Reducing Drug Related Harm in Asia, of which he was Editor-in-Chief and has done many consultancies for UN and other multilateral, bilateral and national agencies. For his work promoting harm reduction in Asia, Prof Crofts was awarded the International Rolleston Award for Harm Reduction in 1998. From 2004 to 2007, he was Director of Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre in Melbourne; from 2007 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Nossal Institute. The centrepiece of Nick's life is his family; he is married to his best friend, Kerri, and has four delightful daughters.