Professor Andrew Steer is Director of Infection, Immunity and Global Health, and Group Leader of the Tropical Diseases Research Group, at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He is a paediatric infectious diseases physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Andrew is Co-Chair of Melbourne Children’s Global Health. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Andrew did the majority of his medical training at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. Andrew moved to Suva, Fiji, in 2005 where he conducted research towards his PhD (University of Melbourne). Subsequently, he completed his subspecialty training in paediatric infectious diseases at British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, before returning to Melbourne in 2010.
Andrew’s research focuses on tropical diseases, particularly scabies, Strep A and rheumatic heart disease. He is Director of the World Scabies Program, recipient of the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award, and Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on Scabies Control. Andrew is Co-Director of the Australian Strep A Vaccine Initiative, Co-Chair of the Strep A Vaccine Global Consortium, and President of the Lancefield International Society for Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases.
Andrew has won several awards including the inaugural Jian Zhou Medal awarded by the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2020, and the Bailey K Ashford Medal awarded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2020.
Professor Andrew Steer is Director of Infection, Immunity and Global Health, and Group Leader of the Tropical Diseases Research Group, at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He is a paediatric infectious diseases physician at the Royal...
Professor Andrew Steer is Director of Infection, Immunity and Global Health, and Group Leader of the Tropical Diseases Research Group, at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He is a paediatric infectious diseases physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Andrew is Co-Chair of Melbourne Children’s Global Health. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Andrew did the majority of his medical training at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. Andrew moved to Suva, Fiji, in 2005 where he conducted research towards his PhD (University of Melbourne). Subsequently, he completed his subspecialty training in paediatric infectious diseases at British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, before returning to Melbourne in 2010.
Andrew’s research focuses on tropical diseases, particularly scabies, Strep A and rheumatic heart disease. He is Director of the World Scabies Program, recipient of the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award, and Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on Scabies Control. Andrew is Co-Director of the Australian Strep A Vaccine Initiative, Co-Chair of the Strep A Vaccine Global Consortium, and President of the Lancefield International Society for Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases.
Andrew has won several awards including the inaugural Jian Zhou Medal awarded by the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2020, and the Bailey K Ashford Medal awarded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2020.
Top Publications
Sherwood, E, Vergnano, S, Kakuchi, I, Van Beneden, CA, Steer, A, Bruce, MG, Chaurasia, S, David, S, Dramowski, A, Georges, S, et al.
Invasive Group a Streptococcal Disease in Pregnant Women and Young Children Worldwide: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses.
2021
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Marks, M, Gwyn, S, Toloka, H, Kositz, C, Asugeni, J, Asugeni, R, Diau, J, Kaldor, JM, Romani, L, Redman-MacLaren, M, et al.
Impact of community treatment with ivermectin for the control of scabies on the prevalence of antibodies to Strongyloides stercoralis in children.
Clinical Infectious Diseases
71(12)
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ciaa584-
2020
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Engelman, D, Yoshizumi, J, Hay, RJ, Osti, M, Micali, G, Norton, S, Walton, S, Boralevi, F, Bernigaud, C, Bowen, AC, et al.
The 2020 International Alliance for the Control of Scabies Consensus Criteria for the Diagnosis of Scabies.
British Journal of Dermatology
183(5)
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808 -820
2020
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Ibrahim, LF, Tosif, S, McNab, S, Hall, S, Lee, HJ, Lewena, S, Daley, AJ, Crawford, NW, Steer, AC, Bryant, PA, et al.
SARS‐CoV‐2 testing and outcomes in the first 30 days after the first case of COVID‐19 at an Australian children's hospital.
Emergency Medicine Australasia
32(5)
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801 -808
2020
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Ibrahim, LF, Cheng, DR, Babl, FE, Bryant, PA, Crawford, NW, Daley, AJ, Lewena, S, McNab, S, Noakes, K, Steer, AC, et al.
COVID‐19 in health‐care workers: Testing and outcomes at a Victorian tertiary children's hospital.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
56(10)
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1642 -1644
2020
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