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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

  • Apis, V, Landi, M, Graham, SM, Islam, T, Amini, J, Sabumi, G, Mandalakas, AM, Meae, T, du Cros, P, Shewade, HD, et al. Outcomes in children treated for tuberculosis with the new dispersible fixed-dose combinations in Port Moresby. Public Health Action 9(1) : s32 -s37 2019
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  • Aia, P, Majumdar, SS, Pomat, W, Tefuarani, N, Graham, SM, Dakulala, P. The SORT IT model for building operational research capacity: the experience of TB service providers in PNG. Public Health Action 9(1) : s1 -s2 2019
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  • Honjepari, A, Madiowi, S, Madjus, S, Burkot, C, Islam, S, Chan, G, Majumdar, SS, Graham, SM. Implementation of screening and management of household contacts of tuberculosis cases in Daru, Papua New Guinea. Public Health Action 9(1) : s25 -s31 2019
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  • Nguyen, PTK, Tran, HT, Fitzgerald, DA, Tran, TS, Graham, SM, Marais, BJ. Characterisation of children hospitalised with pneumonia in central Vietnam: a prospective study. European Respiratory Journal 54(1) : 1802256 2019
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  • Russell, FM, Reyburn, R, Chan, J, Tuivaga, E, Lim, R, Lai, J, Van, HMT, Choummanivong, M, Sychareun, V, Khanh, DKT, et al. Impact of the change in WHO’s severe pneumonia case definition on hospitalized pneumonia epidemiology: case studies from six countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 97(6) : 386 -393 2019
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