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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

  • Laufer, MK, van Oosterhout, JJG, Perez, MA, Kanyanganlika, J, Taylor, TE, Plowe, CV, Graham, SM. Observational Cohort Study of HIV-Infected African Children. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 25(7) : 623 -627 2006
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  • Nyirenda, M, Sinfield, R, Haves, S, Molyneux, EM, Graham, SM. Poor attendance at a child TB contact clinic in Malawi.. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 10(5) : 585 -587 2006
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  • Laufer, MK, van Oosterhout, JJG, Thesing, PC, Thumba, F, Zijlstra, EE, Graham, SM, Taylor, TE, Plowe, CV. Impact of HIV-Associated Immunosuppression on Malaria Infection and Disease in Malawi. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 193(6) : 872 -878 2006
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  • Graham, SM, Bell, DJ, Nyirongo, S, Hartkoorn, R, Ward, SA, Molyneux, EM. Low Levels of Pyrazinamide and Ethambutol in Children with Tuberculosis and Impact of Age, Nutritional Status, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 50(2) : 407 -413 2006
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  • Harries, AD, Graham, SM, Weismuller, MM, Claessens, N, Meijnen, S, Hargreaves, NJ, Mwansambo, C, Kazembe, PN, Salaniponi, FM. Childhood tuberculosis in Malawi: caseload, diagnostic practices and treatment outcomes. Malawi Medical Journal 17(4) : 119 -124 2005
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