Belen is a public health researcher specialising in modelling health and health-related economic impacts of city planning and transport scenarios. Belen was awarded an RMIT VC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2019.
At RMIT Belen co-leads the project Joining Impact models of transport with spatial measures of the Built Environment (https://jibeproject.com/our-people/) funded by Funded by the UK Medical Research (UKRI) and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Belen is the lead for a project funded by VicHealth to develop tools to visualise resutls from complex transport and health models and support knowledge translation and impact.
Belen also led the development of the THAT models (https://auo.org.au/transport-health-assessment/) building on her PhD work and fellowship at the University of Cambridge and now leads the methodological developments for THAT-Brisbane.
