Dr Hamish Graham is a Consultant Paediatrician and Research Fellow at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Centre for International Child Health (University of Melbourne). Dr Graham currently leads multi-country projects on child pneumonia and oxygen therapy (Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Uganda) and a child disability support project in Afghanistan.

Dr Graham completed his medical training at Monash University, and studied International Development through RMIT University – subsequently returning to lecture on refugee health. He spent one year at Johns Hopkins University in the United States as a Fulbright scholar, before returning to Australia to complete his specialist training in Paediatrics through the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne, in collaboration with University College Hospital Ibadan.

Dr Graham is a collaborative clinician-researcher, with interests in improving the quality of care for children, pulse oximetry and oxygen therapy, understanding refugee health and developmental issues, and developing models of care for children with chronic health conditions. He works with: World Health Organization (WHO); Save the Children; University of Ibadan; University College London; Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI); FREO2 Foundation. He is a member of international coalitions including: Every Breath Counts; Pneumonia Innovations Network; United for Oxygen. His work has been funded by: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Grand Challenges Canada; WHO; RCH Foundation; Save the Children/GSK; anonymous donors.

Dr Graham currently leads projects on child pneumonia and oxygen therapy in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, and Uganda including the Oxygen Implementation Project (BMGF), INSPIRING child pneumonia project (Save/GSK), and Uganda Oxygen scale-up project (CHAI). He also leads the Mighty Children child disability project in Afghanistan (GCC). Dr Graham has contributed to policy on oxygen therapy in Nigeria (state and national), Ethiopia (national) and globally (WHO, UNICEF). He has led systematic reviews on Refugee Child Health, Oxygen Therapy, and Care of Children with Chronic Health Conditions and authored over 30 academic publications.

Dr Graham also works clinically in the RCH Tuberculosis clinic and Immigrant Health clinic, and has an outspoken passion for the health of asylum seeker and refugee children. He contributed to the Human Right’s Commission report on the health of children in Immigration Detention, Victorian immunisation policy, and Victorian tuberculosis guidelines.

Dr Graham has previously lived and worked in diverse settings, including: as a paediatric registrar in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory working predominantly with Indigenous children; as a clinical researcher in paediatric and maternity hospitals in Kabul, Afghanistan, exploring the use of clinical guidelines and their impact on quality of care; as a field doctor with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Darfur, Sudan, coordinating a hospital and clinics for 30,000 people displaced by civil war.