Billie Giles-Corti is an RMIT Emerita Professor. From 2017-20 she was RMIT’s Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform Director, and from 2017-22 she led the Centre for Urban Research’s Healthy Liveable Cities Lab.For over two decades, Billie and multi-disciplinary research teams have been studying the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing. From 2014-20, she led an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities, working closely with local and national policy-makers and practitioners in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and nationally. From 2014-23, she was a Chief Investigator of the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre and led its National Liveability Study which initiated the Australian Urban Observatory.She has published over 400 articles, book chapters and reports, and by citations, is ranked in the top 1% of researchers in her field globally. She is an Honorary Fellow of both the Planning Institute of Australia and the Public Health Association and a Fulbright Scholar.

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