Contact Details
| Organization: | Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital |
| Position: | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - CICH |
| Email: | |
| Work: | 9345 4977 |
| Level: | 04 |
| Building: | RCH Educ Inst - 159 Flemington Rd Nth Melb |
| Campus: | Parkville |
Biography
Steve is particularly interested in working with disease control programmes in improving guidelines for evidence-based practice and in improving implementation of such guidelines. In Malawi, he worked closely with the National TB Programme to improve management of child TB and has provided technical assistance to WHO in a similar role with NTPs in India (2003), Papua New Guinea (2007) and the Philippines (2008). He is a co-author of the WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care of Children, WHO manual of TB/HIV, and WHO Guidance for management of TB in children. Steve is a founding member of the Child TB subgroup of WHO’s Stop TB Department.
Steve also works part-time for the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in the area of child lung health, and was involved in the Child Lung Health Project of the Malawi Government’s Ministry of Health which was IUATLD supported and funded by the Gates Foundation from 2000-2005. This project continues until now and has resulted in significant improvements in child pneumonia management and outcomes in the 25 district hospitals in Malawi.
Steve is a strong advocate of local/national ownership and priority-setting for research agenda. Steve was a co-author of a grant proposal for Research Capacity Strengthening that secured £10 million for Malawi National Research Council in 2007. Steve was editor of the Malawi Medical Journal and convenor of the Annual University of Malawi College of Medicine Research Dissemination Meeting from 2001 until 2007. Steve is currently Associate Editor of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest | Country of Expertise |
|---|---|
| International Health, Infectious Diseases, Paediatrics | Australia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia |
International Linkages
| Country | Establishment | Collaboration |
|---|---|---|
| Malawi | University of Malawi | Research, Teaching |
| United Kingdom | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | Research, Teaching |
| Philippines | WHO - Regional Office for the Western Pacific | Teaching, Technical Assistance/Training |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards
Qualifications
| Title | Institution | Date Awarded | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery | University of Sydney | 31-Dec-1981 | |
| Diploma of Tropical Child Health | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | 31-Dec-1998 |
Memberships
| Membership Type | Membership Body | Description | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | Board Member | 20-Oct-1996 | |
| Member | Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | Member | 02-Mar-1998 | |
| Member | Australian Conservation Foundation | Member | 02-Mar-1988 | |
| Member | European Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases | Member | 01-Feb-2006 |
Fellowships
| Fellowship | Date Awarded |
|---|---|
| Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) | 31-Dec-1992 |
Other Awards
| Award Type | Awarding Body | Comments | Date Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medal | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | for distinguished contribution to tropical medicine | 28-Sep-2007 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
- Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES) (320503)
- Central Nervous System (NEUROSCIENCES) (320702)
- Intensive Care (CLINICAL SCIENCES) (321009)
- Infectious Diseases (CLINICAL SCIENCES) (321010)
- Paediatrics (CLINICAL SCIENCES) (321019)
- Respiratory Diseases (CLINICAL SCIENCES) (321027)
- Preventive Medicine (PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES) (321206)
- Indigenous Health (PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES) (321207)
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
- Infectious diseases (CLINICAL; ORGANS, DISEASES AND ABNORMAL CONDITIONS) (730101)
- Respiratory system and diseases (incl. Asthma) (CLINICAL; ORGANS, DISEASES AND ABNORMAL CONDITIONS) (730110)
- Child health (PUBLIC HEALTH) (730204)
- Health related to specific ethnic groups (PUBLIC HEALTH) (730207)
- Preventive medicine (PUBLIC HEALTH) (730213)
Grants and Contracts
Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.
Grants
| Title | Role | Funding Source | Scheme | Award Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT WITH UNSW - TIBOTEC REACH INITIATIVE GRANT | Chief Investigator | UNIVERSITY OF NSW | Reach Initiative Grant (TIBOTEC PHARMACEUTICALS) | 01/12/2008 |
Additional Grant and Contract Information
1. NHMRC, Australia, 2008. Improving protection against childhood tuberculosis. AUD$ 456,500 (Co-investigator) Project Grant 546486.
2. IIE Research Investment Funding, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, 2008. Establishing a network of sites for future intervention studies to improve case-management of child pneumonia in high mortality countries. AUD$ 50,550 (Co-PI)
3. The Wellcome Trust/DFID Research Capacity Strengthening Initiative for Malawi. GBP £10 million (Secretariat and Writing Committee for Taskforce)
4. South African Medical Research Council. Africa Fellowship for James Mwenechanya. Clinicopathological study of chronic lung disease in HIV-infected and uninfected children. ZAR200,000
5. TB Alert, UK. Operational studies of child TB, 2002-2004. GBP £14,000 (Co-investigator)
6. Research Development Fund, University of Liverpool. Training in methods of drug analysis – pharmacokinetic study of TB drugs in children. GBP £6,000 (PI)
7. Wellcome Trust, UK, 2002. Incidence of common infections in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children and benefit of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis. GBP £267,000 (PI)
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.