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
Colquhoun, S, Kado, JH, Remenyi, B, Wilson, NJ, Carapetis, JR, Steer, AC.
PW363 Echocardiographic Screening In A Resource Poor Setting: Borderline Rheumatic Heart Disease Could Be A Normal Variant.
Global Heart
9(1)
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e334
2014
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Steer, A, Danchin, M, Irlam, JH, Mayosi, BM, Engel, ME, Gaziano, TA, Whitelaw, AC.
Primary prevention of rheumatic fever in children: key factors to consider..
South African Medical Journal
104(3)
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156 -157
2014
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Baroux, N, D'Ortenzio, E, Smeesters, P, Steer, A.
O134 GAS emm-types probably involved in acute rheumatic fever.
Global Heart
9(1)
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e37
2014
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D'antoine, HA, Brown, N, Bessarab, D, Hudson, M, Tong, S, Steer, A, Garnjulkpuy, J, Maypilama, E, Murakami-Gold, L, Brown, A.
PW357 Rheumatic Heart Disease: Establishing governance and Community Engagement for a genome wide association study in an Indigenous Australian population.
Global Heart
9(1)
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e332
2014
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Dunne, EM, Marshall, JL, Baker, CA, Manning, J, Gonis, G, Danchin, MH, Smeesters, PR, Satzke, C, Steer, AC.
Detection of group a streptococcal pharyngitis by quantitative PCR.
BMC Infectious Diseases
13(1)
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312
2013
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