Belen Zapata-Diomedi

Belen is an RMIT Vice Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellowship evaluating the co-benefits of urban and transport planning.

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.

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New tool shows active transport benefits to health and finances

23 November 2023

Today a team from the RMIT Centre for Urban Research are launching THAT-Brisbane, a transport and health assessment tool for planning healthier cities.

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Publications

Integrating spatially detailed micro-environmental attributes to a routable transport network for active travel modeling: A pilot study in Greater Manchester

S. M. Labib, Irena Itova, Corin Staves, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Dr Alan Both, Lucy Gunn, Haneen Khreis, Ali Abbas, Aruna Sivakumar, Jenna Panter, Billie Giles-Corti, James Woodcock

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.93076

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Bayesian multistate modelling of incomplete chronic disease burden data

Christopher Jackson, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, James Woodcock

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in Society

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Cycling behaviour in 17 countries across 6 continents: levels of cycling, who cycles, for what purpose, and how far?

Rahul Goel, Anna Goodman, Rachel Aldred, Ryota Nakamura, Lambed Tatah, Leandro Martin Totaro Gacia, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, et al.

Transport Reviews

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Integrating spatially detailed micro-environmental attributes to a routable transport network for active travel modelling: A pilot study in Greater Manchester

S M Labib, Irena Itova, Corin Staves, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Dr Alan Both, Lucy Gunn, Haneen Khreis, Ali Abbas, Aruna Sivakumar, Jenna Panter, Billie Giles-Corti, James Woodcock

30th Annual Geographical Information Science Research UK

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Active transport research priorities for Australia

Ben Beck, Amelia Thorpe, Anna Timperio, Billie Giles-Corti, Carmel William, Evelyne de Leeuw, Hayley Christian, Kirstan Corben, Mark Stevenson, Melissa Backhouse, Rebecca Ivers, Rema Hayek, Rob Raven, Sam Bolton, Shanthi Ameratunga, Trevor Shilton, Belen Zapata-Diomedi

Journal of Transport & Health

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