Stephen Graham
Professor
pediatric
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
Professor Steve Graham is Leader of International Child Health Group at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Prof 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. Prof Graham was awarded Leverhulme Medal for distinguished contribution to tropical medicine by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, in 2007. He was appointed to current post at University of Melbourne in 2008. Steve has since developed collaborative links in 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 World Health Organization (WHO) Stop TB Partnership, as well as being a member of the Strategic Technical Advisory Group on TB for the WHO, as well as research committees for Wellcome Trust, UK, and National Institutes of Health, USA.
Research Interest
Child Health,Infection and Immunity
Publications
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Graham SM, Triasih R. Editorial commentary: more evidence to support screening of child contacts of tuberculosis cases: if not now, then when?.
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Crawford NW, Graham SM. EV71 vaccine: protection from a previously neglected disease. The Lancet. 2013 Jun 8;381(9882):1968-70.
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Graham SM, Cuevas LE, Jean-Philippe P, Browning R, Casenghi M, Detjen AK, Gnanashanmugam D, Hesseling AC, Kampmann B, Mandalakas A, Marais BJ. Clinical case definitions for classification of intrathoracic tuberculosis in children: an update. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2015 Sep 16;61(suppl_3):S179-87.
