Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti

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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.

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What do we know about the laws that shape our built environments for walking and cycling in Australia?

Resource category: Visuals

Date 20 Jan 2023
Importance of healthy liveable cities

Resource category: Findings Brief

Date 15 Dec 2022
Benchmarking, monitoring, modelling and valuing the healthy liveable city

Resource category: Reports

Date 12 Aug 2022
Research seminar: Creating healthy liveable cities: The journey of a research program

Resource category: Videos

Date 14 Jul 2022
How we can create healthier, liveable cities

Resource category: Videos

Date 11 Mar 2021
Australian Urban Observatory

Resource category: Websites

Date 06 May 2020
The power of planning to improve health in entire communities

Resource category: Podcasts

Date 04 Jun 2018
Creating healthy liveable neighbourhoods

Resource category: Findings Brief

Date 08 Jun 2017
How city design affects our health

Resource category: Videos

Date 23 Oct 2014

Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti's projects

Creating liveable cities and healthy communities

How do we effectively embed health at all levels of political and policy decision-making?

The importance of healthy liveable cities

Developing the tools to map and measure urban liveability across Australia

Assessing costs and benefits of whole-of-government prevention

Economic analysis of prevention: Evaluating the ripple effect

Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti's news and media

Do our laws help or hinder physical activity in our neighbourhoods?

A career that captured the imagination

Action needed on prevention and collaboration implementation research

Forbes – We are not doing enough to make our cities healthier

May Chronicle newsletter

#Prevention2022 Wrap

Taking liveability goals global

Australian cities among the worst performing on walkability and public transport access

Lancet Series on urban design, transport and health

Lancet Global Health Series on urban design, transport, and health

The missing steps to support walkability

A passion project to make the heart sing: Urban planning for healthier lives

Australia in 2030 – A bold and progressive path to better health

‘You can’t do this alone’: Working together across sectors to create change

Meet Billie Giles-Corti

PreventionWorks LIVE: a new series of events and podcasts from the Prevention Centre

How Australia’s 21 largest cities score for liveability

Liveable cities research has real impact on health and equity

Four projects take the Prevention Centre into its new phase

Online tool maps liveability across Australia’s cities

From scaling up to driverless cars – the Prevention Centre opens new frontiers in prevention

Sydney on top for liveability, but falling behind on public transport

Report card on the liveability of our cities

Australian cities perform poorly across liveability indicators: study

The secrets of successful partnership research

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Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti's publications

What are the lessons from COVID-19 for creating healthy, sustainable, resilient future cities?

Policy-relevant health-related liveability indicator datasets for addresses in Australia’s 21 largest cities

Mapping and analysis of laws influencing built environments for walking and cycling in Australia

The built environment and population physical activity: Methods for mapping the relevant laws

Spatial and socioeconomic inequities in liveability in Australia’s 21 largest cities: Does city size matter?

Exploring inequities in housing affordability through an analysis of walkability and house prices by neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage

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

Determining thresholds for spatial urban design and transport features that support walking to create healthy and sustainable cities: Findings from the IPEN Adult study

City planning policies to support health and sustainability: An international comparison of policy indicators for 25 cities

What next? Expanding our view of city planning and global health, and implementing and monitoring evidence-informed policy

An analysis of the legal framework influencing walking in Australia

Achieving ‘active’ 30 minute cities: How feasible is it to reach work within 30 minutes using active transport modes?

Building the road network for city-scale active transport simulation models

Could smart research ensure healthy people in disrupted cities?

Achieving the SDGs: Evaluating indicators to be used to benchmark and monitor progress towards creating healthy and sustainable cities

Using walkability measures to identify train stations with the potential to become transit oriented developments located in walkable neighbourhoods

Physical activity-related health and economic benefits of building walkable neighbourhoods: a modelled comparison between brownfield and greenfield developments

Creating and applying public transport indicators to test pathways of behaviours and health through an urban transport framework

Testing spatial measures of alcohol outlet density with self-rated health in the Australian context: Implications for policy and practice

The development of policy-relevant transport indicators to monitor health behaviours and outcomes

Translating active living research into policy and practice: one important pathway to chronic disease prevention

Developing a research and practice tool to measure walkability: a demonstration project

Reconnecting urban planning with health: a protocol for the development and validation of national liveability indicators associated with noncommunicable disease risk behaviours and health outcomes