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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

  • Wilkes, C, Subhi, R, Graham, HR, Duke, T, Graham, S, Gray, A, Gwee, A, von Mollendorf, C, Mulholland, K, Russell, F, et al. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) for severe pneumonia in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of contextual factors. Journal of Global Health 12: 10012 2024
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  • Youngui, BT, Tchounga, BK, Graham, SM, Bonnet, M. Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents. Pathogens 11(12) : 1512 2024
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  • Kazi, S, Hernstadt, H, Abo, Y-N, Graham, H, Palmer, M, Graham, SM, Duke, T, Graham, H, Graham, S, Gray, A, et al. The utility of chest x-ray and lung ultrasound in the management of infants and children presenting with severe pneumonia in low-and middle-income countries: A pragmatic scoping review. Journal of Global Health 12: 10013 2024
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  • Majumdar, SS, Islam, S, Huang, GKL, Morris, L, Bauri, M, Chan, G, Kama, G, Keam, T, Peacock-Smith, A, Finch, S, et al. Contact screening and management in a high-transmission MDR-TB setting in Papua New Guinea: Progress, challenges and future directions. Frontiers in Tropical Diseases 3: 1085401 2024
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  • Reyburn, R, Maher, J, von Mollendorf, C, Gwee, A, Mulholland, K, Russell, F, Duke, T, Graham, H, Graham, S, Gray, A, et al. The impact of the introduction of ten- or thirteen-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on antimicrobial-resistant pneumococcal disease and carriage: A systematic literature review. Journal of Global Health 13: 05001 2024
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