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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

  • Joshi, B, Lestari, T, Graham, SM, Baral, SC, Verma, SC, Ghimire, G, Bhatta, B, Dumre, SP, Utarini, A. The implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF assay for diagnosis of tuberculosis in Nepal: A mixed-methods analysis. PLOS ONE 13(8) : e0201731 2024
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  • Birungi, FM, Graham, SM, Uwimana, J, Musabimana, A, van Wyk, B. Adherence to isoniazid preventive therapy among child contacts in Rwanda: A mixed-methods study. PLOS ONE 14(2) : e0211934 2024
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  • MacLennan, CA, Msefula, CL, Gondwe, EN, Gilchrist, JJ, Pensulo, P, Mandala, WL, Mwimaniwa, G, Banda, M, Kenny, J, Wilson, LK, et al. Presentation of life-threatening invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella disease in Malawian children: A prospective observational study. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(12) : e0006027 2024
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  • Enarson, PM, Gie, RP, Mwansambo, CC, Maganga, ER, Lombard, CJ, Enarson, DA, Graham, SM. Reducing Deaths from Severe Pneumonia in Children in Malawi by Improving Delivery of Pneumonia Case Management. PLOS ONE 9(7) : e102955 2024
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  • Oktaria, V, Graham, SM, Triasih, R, Soenarto, Y, Bines, JE, Ponsonby, A-L, Clarke, MW, Dinari, R, Nirwati, H, Danchin, M. The prevalence and determinants of vitamin D deficiency in Indonesian infants at birth and six months of age. PLOS ONE 15(10) : e0239603 2024
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