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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

  • Gilchrist, JJ, Heath, JN, Msefula, CL, Gondwe, EN, Naranbhai, V, Mandala, W, MacLennan, JM, Molyneux, EM, Graham, SM, Drayson, MT, et al. Cytokine Profiles during Invasive Nontyphoidal Salmonella Disease Predict Outcome in African Children. mSphere 23(7) : 601 -609 2016
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  • Marais, BJ, Seddon, JA, Detjen, AK, van der Werf, MJ, Grzemska, M, Hesseling, AC, Curtis, N, Graham, SM, Subgroup, WCT. Interrupted BCG vaccination is a major threat to global child health. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 4(4) : 251 -253 2016
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  • Seddon, JA, Graham, SM. Childhood TB: can the End TB Strategy deliver?. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 110(3) : 155 -157 2016
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  • Marais, BJ, Graham, SM. New childhood tuberculosis roadmap. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 52(3) : 258 -261 2016
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  • Mandala, WL, Msefula, CL, Gondwe, EN, Gilchrist, JJ, Graham, SM, Pensulo, P, Mwimaniwa, G, Banda, M, Taylor, TE, Molyneux, EE, et al. Lymphocyte Perturbations in Malawian Children with Severe and Uncomplicated Malaria. mSphere 23(2) : 95 -103 2016
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