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Role Group Leader / Honorary Fellow Manager
Professor Steve Graham is the Leader of the International Child Health Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

Professor Graham is a Paediatrician with 20 years' experience in international child health including African and Asia-Pacific regions. He has worked in Papua New Guinea (1985), Thailand (1993/4) and Malawi (1995-2007). While with the College of Medicine in Malawi, he helped establish the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust clinical research programme in Blantyre and was Deputy Director from 2001 to 2007.

Professor Graham was awarded the Leverhulme Medal for distinguished contribution to tropical medicine by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, in 2007. He was appointed to a current post at the University of Melbourne in 2008. Steve has since developed collaborative links in the Asia-Pacific region and works part-time for the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

He is a founding member and current chair of the Child Tuberculosis (TB) subgroup of the World Health Organization (WHO) Stop TB Partnership, as well as a member of the Strategic Technical Advisory Group on TB for the WHO, and research committees for Wellcome Trust, UK, and National Institutes of Health, USA.
Professor Steve Graham is the Leader of the International Child Health Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

Professor Graham is a Paediatrician with 20 years' experience in international child health including African and Asia-Pacific...
Professor Steve Graham is the Leader of the International Child Health Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

Professor Graham is a Paediatrician with 20 years' experience in international child health including African and Asia-Pacific regions. He has worked in Papua New Guinea (1985), Thailand (1993/4) and Malawi (1995-2007). While with the College of Medicine in Malawi, he helped establish the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust clinical research programme in Blantyre and was Deputy Director from 2001 to 2007.

Professor Graham was awarded the Leverhulme Medal for distinguished contribution to tropical medicine by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, in 2007. He was appointed to a current post at the University of Melbourne in 2008. Steve has since developed collaborative links in the Asia-Pacific region and works part-time for the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

He is a founding member and current chair of the Child Tuberculosis (TB) subgroup of the World Health Organization (WHO) Stop TB Partnership, as well as a member of the Strategic Technical Advisory Group on TB for the WHO, and research committees for Wellcome Trust, UK, and National Institutes of Health, USA.

Top Publications

  • Phuong, NTK, Hoang, TT, Van, PH, Tu, L, Graham, SM, Marais, BJ. Encouraging rational antibiotic use in childhood pneumonia: a focus on Vietnam and the Western Pacific Region. Pneumonia 9(1) : 7 2017
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  • Marais, BJ, Graham, SM. Symptom-based screening of child TB contacts: defining ‘symptomatic'. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 21(7) : 832 -833 2017
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  • Nguyen, TKP, Nguyen, DV, Truong, TNH, Tran, MD, Graham, SM, Marais, BJ. Disease spectrum and management of children admitted with acute respiratory infection in Viet Nam. Tropical Medicine and International Health 22(6) : 688 -695 2017
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  • Snow, K, Hesseling, AC, Naidoo, P, Graham, SM, Denholm, J, du Preez, K. Tuberculosis in adolescents and young adults: epidemiology and treatment outcomes in the Western Cape. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 21(6) : 651 -657 2017
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  • Harausz, EP, Garcia-Prats, AJ, Seddon, JA, Schaaf, HS, Hesseling, AC, Achar, J, Bernheimer, J, Cruz, AT, D'Ambrosio, L, Detjen, A, et al. New and Repurposed Drugs for Pediatric Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis. Practice-based Recommendations. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 195(10) : 1300 -1310 2017
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