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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

  • Yuen, CM, Sekadde, MP, Kaiser, B, Waning, B, Graham, SM. Towards Shorter, Child-Friendly Regimens for Treatment of Tuberculosis Disease and Infection in Children. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 42(3) : e77 -e79 2023
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  • Gafar, F, Wasmann, RE, McIlleron, HM, Aarnoutse, RE, Schaaf, HS, Marais, BJ, Agarwal, D, Antwi, S, Bang, ND, Bekker, A, et al. Global estimates and determinants of antituberculosis drug pharmacokinetics in children and adolescents: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis. European Respiratory Journal 61(3) : 2201596 2023
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  • Marcy, O, Wobudeya, E, Font, H, Vessière, A, Chabala, C, Khosa, C, Taguebue, J-V, Moh, R, Mwanga-Amumpaire, J, Lounnas, M, et al. Effect of systematic tuberculosis detection on mortality in young children with severe pneumonia in countries with high incidence of tuberculosis: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 23(3) : 341 -351 2023
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  • Jops, P, Cowan, J, Kupul, M, Trumb, RN, Graham, SM, Bauri, M, Nindil, H, Bell, S, Keam, T, Majumdar, S, et al. Beyond patient delay, navigating structural health system barriers to timely care and treatment in a high burden TB setting in Papua New Guinea. Global Public Health 18(1) : 2184482 2023
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  • Bainomugisa, A, Lavu, E, Pandey, S, Majumdar, S, Banamu, J, Coulter, C, Marais, B, Coin, L, Graham, SM, du Cros, P. Evolution and spread of a highly drug resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea. BMC Infectious Diseases 22(1) : 437 2022
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