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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

  • Nicol, MP, Gnanashanmugam, D, Browning, R, Click, ES, Cuevas, LE, Detjen, A, Graham, SM, Levin, M, Makhene, M, Nahid, P, et al. A Blueprint to Address Research Gaps in the Development of Biomarkers for Pediatric Tuberculosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases 61(suppl_3) : s164 -s172 2015
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  • Graham, SM, Cuevas, LE, Jean-Philippe, P, Browning, R, Casenghi, M, Detjen, AK, Gnanashanmugam, D, Hesseling, AC, Kampmann, B, Mandalakas, A, et al. Clinical Case Definitions for Classification of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children: An Update. Clinical Infectious Diseases 61(suppl_3) : s179 -s187 2015
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  • Tran, HT, Doyle, LW, Lee, KJ, Dang, NM, Graham, SM. A high burden of late-onset sepsis among newborns admitted to the largest neonatal unit in central Vietnam. Journal of Perinatology 35(10) : 846 -851 2015
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  • Chisti, MJ, Salam, MA, Smith, JH, Ahmed, T, Pietroni, MAC, Shahunja, KM, Shahid, ASMSB, Faruque, ASG, Ashraf, H, Bardhan, PK, et al. Bubble continuous positive airway pressure for children with severe pneumonia and hypoxaemia in Bangladesh: an open, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet 386(9998) : 1057 -1065 2015
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  • Tebruegge, M, Dutta, B, Donath, S, Ritz, N, Forbes, B, Camacho-Badilla, K, Clifford, V, Zufferey, C, Robins-Browne, R, Hanekom, W, et al. Mycobacteria-Specific Cytokine Responses Detect Tuberculosis Infection and Distinguish Latent from Active Tuberculosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 192(4) : 485 -499 2015
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