Urban Design, Transport and Health

Venue: Singapore Theatre, Basement, Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Professor Mark Stevenson, Professor Billie Giles-Corti

Major global health challenges are being confronted in the 21st century, prompting calls to re-think approaches to disease prevention. City planning that reduces non-communicable diseases and road trauma, while managing rapid urbanisation is part of the solution.

The Lancet series focuses on the health impact of city planning through transport mode options and choices. The three presentations unravel the complexity of urban design, the transport system and population health and provide a paradigm shift in our approach to responding to the growing burden of chronic disease and injury in our cities. The series offers key recommendations that urban and transport planners and policymakers could implement to improve the health of urban populations.

At this event, lead authors of the The Lancet series will provide an outline of the three research papers on urban design, transport and health, and copies of the series will be available for attendees.

Professor Billie Giles-Corti is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and in 2011 became Director of the Melbourne University School of Population Health, McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing.

Professor Mark Stevenson is an epidemiologist and Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health. Prior to this appointment, Prof Stevenson was Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre, a leading transport safety research Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

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