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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

  • Gordon, MA, Feasey, NA, Nyirenda, TS, Graham, SM. 49 Nontyphoid Salmonella Disease. 500 -506 2020
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  • Lestari, T, Graham, S, van den Boogard, C, Triasih, R, Poespoprodjo, JR, Ubra, RR, Kenangalem, E, Mahendradhata, Y, Anstey, NM, Bailie, RS, et al. Bridging the knowledge-practice gap in tuberculosis contact management in a high-burden setting: a mixed-methods protocol for a multicenter health system strengthening study. Implementation Science 14(1) : 31 2019
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  • Nguyen, PT, Tran, HT, Truong, HT, Nguyen, VT, Graham, SM, Marais, BJ. Paediatric use of antibiotics in children with community acquired pneumonia: A survey from Da Nang, Vietnam. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 55(11) : 1329 -1334 2019
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  • Sodeng, K, Botu, A, Semmie, M, Yoannes, M, Shewade, HD, Commons, R, Graham, SM, du Cros, P. Challenges in TB diagnosis and treatment: the Kavieng Provincial Hospital experience, Papua New Guinea. Public Health Action 9(1) : s57 -s61 2019
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  • Lavu, EK, Johnson, K, Banamu, J, Pandey, S, Carter, R, Coulter, C, Aia, P, Majumdar, SS, Marais, BJ, Graham, SM, et al. Drug-resistant tuberculosis diagnosis since Xpert® MTB/RIF introduction in Papua New Guinea, 2012–2017. Public Health Action 9(1) : s12 -s18 2019
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