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
Romani, L, Whitfeld, MJ, Koroivueta, J, Kama, M, Wand, H, Tikoduadua, L, Tuicakau, M, Koroi, A, Ritova, R, Andrews, R, et al.
The Epidemiology of Scabies and Impetigo in Relation to Demographic and Residential Characteristics: Baseline Findings from the Skin Health Intervention Fiji Trial..
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
97(3)
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845 -850
2017
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Watkins, DA, Johnson, CO, Colquhoun, SM, Karthikeyan, G, Beaton, A, Bukhman, G, Forouzanfar, MH, Longenecker, CT, Mayosi, BM, Mensah, GA, et al.
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease, 1990–2015.
New England Journal of Medicine
377(8)
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713 -722
2017
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Engelman, D, Mataika, RL, Kee, MA, Donath, S, Parks, T, Colquhoun, SM, Carapetis, JR, Kado, JH, Steer, AC.
Clinical outcomes for young people with screening-detected and clinically-diagnosed rheumatic heart disease in Fiji.
International Journal of Cardiology
240:
422 -427
2017
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Thompson, MJ, Engelman, D, Gholam, K, Fuller, LC, Steer, AC.
Systematic review of the diagnosis of scabies in therapeutic trials.
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
42(5)
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481 -487
2017
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Wilkins, AL, Steer, AC, Smeesters, PR, Curtis, N.
Toxic shock syndrome – the seven Rs of management and treatment.
Journal of Infection
74(J Clin Microbiol4262004)
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s147 -s152
2017
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