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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

  • Graham, SM. Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for infants exposed to HIV infection.. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 82(4) : 297 -298 2004
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  • Graham, SM. Impact of HIV on childhood respiratory illness: Differences between developing and developed countries. Pediatric Pulmonology 36(6) : 462 -468 2003
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  • Zachariah, R, Spielmann, MP, Harries, AD, Gomani, P, Graham, SM, Bakali, E, Humblet, P. Passive versus active tuberculosis case finding and isoniazid preventive therapy among household contacts in a rural district of Malawi.. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 7(11) : 1033 -1039 2003
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  • Gordon, SB, Kanyanda, S, Walsh, AL, Goddard, K, Chaponda, M, Atkinson, V, Mulwafu, W, Molyneux, EM, Zijlstra, EE, Molyneux, ME, et al. Poor Potential Coverage for 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, Malawi - Volume 9, Number 6—June 2003 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC. Emerging Infectious Diseases 9(6) : 747 -749 2003
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  • Graham, SM. HIV and respiratory infections in children. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine 9(3) : 215 -220 2003
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