Emeritus Professor Graham Brown

Emeritus Professor Graham Brown is an Australian medical practitioner with experience of practice and research in malaria endemic countries, and training in public health, whose malaria research has focused on immunity to malaria in humans, vaccines, and malaria in pregnancy. Working in Tanzania, and undertaking malaria research in Papua New Guinea stimulated a great interest in particular challenges of combatting both P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria. He was Head of the Division of Infection and Immunity at the Walter and Elisa Hall Institute of Medical Research, James Stewart Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Head of Infectious Diseases and Head of the Department of Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Foundation Director of the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Brown has served for over 25 years on various committees and expert groups in both the Global Malaria Programme and the Tropical Disease Research Programme of WHO, including periods as Chair of the steering committees in immunology of malaria, applied field research in malaria, and vaccine discovery research. He has been a Member of the Advisory Board of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) and a Board Member, Deputy Board Chair, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. Currently he serves as Chair, Scientific Consultants Group of the USAID Malaria Vaccine Development Program.

Other activities relevant to MPAG include a significant role in writing the malERA documentation on barriers to elimination for which research could provide better, or new solutions; contributing to the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria and summary of the work of the Strategic Advisory Group on Malaria Elimination; membership of the WHO Drafting Committee for Malaria Terminology and the WHO evidence review groups for guidance on malaria elimination and submicroscopic infections.

Last updated: 13 February 2021