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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.

Dr Melanie Lowe People

Dr Melanie Lowe

Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow

Journal Article

A call to action: More collaborative implementation research is needed to prevent chronic disease

Luke Wolfenden, Penelope Hawe, Lucie Rychetnik, Rachel Sutherland, Courtney Barnes, Serene Yoong, Emerita Professor Billie Giles-Corti, Jo Mitchell, Adrian Bauman, Andrew J. Milat, Li Kheng Chai, Sara Mayfield, Nadia Mastersson, Louise Freebairn, Gary Sacks, Andrew Wilson, Annemarie Wright, John Wiggers

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Australian cities out of step on walkability, transport: study

13 May 2022

A new series, part of the Global Healthy and Sustainable City-Indicators Collaboration and led by Distinguished Professor Billie-Giles Corti, has been published in The Lancet Global Health. The ‘Urban Design, Transport and Health Series 2’ assesses city planning policies and the urban design and transport features of 25 cities across Australasia, Asia, Europe, USA, Central […]

Current Projects

Understanding and planning for the health and wellbeing impacts of climate change in the City of Greater Dandenong and the Mornington Peninsula Shire

2021 (ongoing)

This project brings together researchers and practitioners planning for equitable health and wellbeing outcomes for all in the context of a changing climate.