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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

  • Nyirenda, M, Borgstein, E, Graham, S. Persistent cough and haemoptysis in an 8-year old boy - case report. Malawi Medical Journal 17(3) : 100 -xx 2024
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  • Phiri, A, Milledge, J, Calis, J, Graham, S, Wilson, L, Soko, D, Mbvwinji, M, Walsh, A, Rogerson, Molyneux, M, et al. Aetiology of neonatal sepsis at QECH, Blantyre: 1996-2001. Malawi Medical Journal 17(3) : 92 -96 2024
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  • Vasiliu, A, Eymard-Duvernay, S, Tchounga, B, Atwine, D, de Carvalho, E, Ouedraogo, S, Kakinda, M, Tchendjou, P, Turyahabwe, S, Kuate, AK, et al. Community Intervention for Child Tuberculosis Active Contact Investigation and Management: Study Protocol for A Cluster Randomized Trial. 2024
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  • Vasiliu, A, Eymard-Duvernay, S, Tchounga, B, Atwine, D, de Carvalho, E, Ouedraogo, S, Kakinda, M, Tchendjou, P, Turyahabwe, S, Kuate, AK, et al. Community Intervention for Child Tuberculosis Active Contact Investigation and Management: study protocol for a parallel cluster randomized controlled trial. 2024
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  • Oktaria, V, Danchin, M, Triasih, R, Soenarto, Y, Bines, JE, Ponsonby, A-L, Clarke, MW, Graham, SM. The incidence of acute respiratory infection in Indonesian infants and association with vitamin D deficiency. PLOS ONE 16(3) : e0248722 2024
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