Steve Graham PhD

Steve Graham is a paediatrician with 20 years of clinical and research experience in international child health in African and Asia-Pacific regions. Particular interests include child tuberculosis, pneumonia and invasive bacterial disease especially invasive salmonellosis in tropical Africa. Steve completed his PhD on the impact of HIV on respiratory disease in Malawian children, which included two first-author Lancet publications. His particular current research interest is to improve implementation of child TB management and prevention in the resource-limited setting.

Since returning to Australia in 2008, Steve has developed collaborative links in Asian-Pacific region, including research projects in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Vietnam. Steve has provided technical assistance on child TB to National TB control Programmes in the region including Indonesia, The Philippines, Lao PDR, Myanmar, China and PNG. He works closely with the World Health Organization in the development of international guidelines and training tools for the management of child TB.