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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

  • Lestari, T, Kamaludin, Lowbridge, C, Kenangalem, E, Poespoprodjo, JR, Graham, SM, Ralph, AP. Impacts of tuberculosis services strengthening and the COVID-19 pandemic on case detection and treatment outcomes in Mimika District, Papua, Indonesia: 2014–2021. PLOS Global Public Health 2(9) : e0001114 2024
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  • Quach, A, Spence, H, Nguyen, C, Graham, SM, von Mollendorf, C, Mulholland, K, Russell, FM. Slow progress towards pneumonia control for children in low-and-middle income countries as measured by pneumonia indicators: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Global Health 12: 10006 2024
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  • Holmes, RH, Sun, S, Kazi, S, Ranganathan, S, Tosif, S, Graham, SM, Graham, HR. Management of tuberculosis infection in Victorian children: A retrospective clinical audit of factors affecting treatment completion. PLOS ONE 17(10) : e0275789 2024
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  • Nguyen, PT, Nguyen, TT, Huynh, LT, Graham, SM, Marais, B. Clinical algorithm reduces antibiotic use for respiratory infections in Vietnam. 2024
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  • Gunasekera, KS, Marcy, O, Muñoz, J, Lopez-Varela, E, Sekadde, MP, Franke, MF, Bonnet, M, Ahmed, S, Amanullah, F, Anwar, A, et al. Development and validation of treatment-decision algorithms for children evaluated for pulmonary tuberculosis: an individual participant data meta-analysis. 2024
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