Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti
Lead Investigator, Leadership Executive
Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti is a Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at RMIT University and Director of the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab at RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research.
For more than two decades, she and a multidisciplinary team of researchers and postgraduate research students have studied the impact of the built environment on social and health and wellbeing outcomes. A leading public health researcher in Australia who is recognised internationally for her research, Professor Giles-Corti has published over 300 articles and reports and has been ranked in the top 1% of researchers in her field globally.
From 2003-2020, Billie was an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. She is an Honorary Fellow of both the Planning Institute of Australia and the Public Health Association, and in 2008 was a Fulbright Senior Scholar.
Billie has worked on research projects across Australia as well as in Canada and the UK, including an evaluation of the impact of relocating low-income families into social and affordable housing in the athletes’ village as part of the 2012 London Olympic Legacy.
Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti's projects
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Creating liveable cities and healthy communities
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How do we effectively embed health at all levels of political and policy decision-making?
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The importance of healthy liveable cities
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Developing the tools to map and measure urban liveability across Australia
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Assessing costs and benefits of whole-of-government prevention
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Economic analysis of prevention: Evaluating the ripple effect
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Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti's news and media
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Do our laws help or hinder physical activity in our neighbourhoods?
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A career that captured the imagination
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Action needed on prevention and collaboration implementation research
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Forbes – We are not doing enough to make our cities healthier
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May Chronicle newsletter
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#Prevention2022 Wrap
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Taking liveability goals global
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Australian cities among the worst performing on walkability and public transport access
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Lancet Series on urban design, transport and health
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Lancet Global Health Series on urban design, transport, and health
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The missing steps to support walkability
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A passion project to make the heart sing: Urban planning for healthier lives
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Australia in 2030 – A bold and progressive path to better health
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‘You can’t do this alone’: Working together across sectors to create change
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Meet Billie Giles-Corti
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PreventionWorks LIVE: a new series of events and podcasts from the Prevention Centre
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How Australia’s 21 largest cities score for liveability
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Liveable cities research has real impact on health and equity
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Four projects take the Prevention Centre into its new phase
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Online tool maps liveability across Australia’s cities
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From scaling up to driverless cars – the Prevention Centre opens new frontiers in prevention
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Sydney on top for liveability, but falling behind on public transport
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Report card on the liveability of our cities
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Australian cities perform poorly across liveability indicators: study
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The secrets of successful partnership research
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Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti's resources
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What do we know about the laws that shape our built environments for walking and cycling in Australia?
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Importance of healthy liveable cities
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Benchmarking, monitoring, modelling and valuing the healthy liveable city
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Research seminar: Creating healthy liveable cities: The journey of a research program
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How we can create healthier, liveable cities
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Australian Urban Observatory
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The power of planning to improve health in entire communities
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Creating healthy liveable neighbourhoods
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How city design affects our health
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