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.

Child Health,Infection and Immunity