Liveability 3

Dr Belen Zapata-Diomedi

Belen is a public health researcher specialising in modelling health and health-related economic impacts of city planning and transport interventions. Belen was awarded an RMIT VC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2019. At RMIT Belen lead the development of the THAT-Melbourne model building on her PhD work and fellowship at the University of Cambridge and now leads …
Katherine Murray

Katherine has a background in architecture/urban design (BArch, RMIT university) and sustainable development (MSc in Development Practices, Oxford Brookes University). Prior to returning to Melbourne in 2018, she spent 20+ years living, working and studying in a range of global cities, including significant periods in Oxford, London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore. Highlights during this …
How does housing affect our health?

There are numerous ways in which population health could benefit if housing was improved in Australia.
Professor Rebecca Bentley

Rebecca Bentley is Director of the Healthy Housing NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence, one of the CREs that contributes to the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact. She is a Professorial Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and the leader of the Healthy Housing Research Group in the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and …
Benchmarking, monitoring, modelling and valuing the healthy liveable city

Moving beyond the ‘why’ we should transition to healthy cities to ‘how’ we design policy and interventions for healthy, liveable cities.
Research seminar: Creating healthy liveable cities: The journey of a research program

In this end-of-project seminar, the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab team describe how they sought to go beyond why we should transition to healthy liveable cities and what interventions were likely to support this transition, to how to design policy and interventions to achieve healthy liveable cities.
Creating healthy liveable cities: The journey of a research program

Join Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti, Dr Lucy Gunn and the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab team straight from the launch of The Lancet’s Global Health series, for a discussion on outcomes from the Benchmarking, monitoring, modelling and valuing the healthy liveable city project.
Steve Pemberton

Steve Pemberton is a researcher in the Centre for Urban Research, working on projects involving public and active transport, with a particular focus on delivering public transport to growth suburbs. He also has another career as a corporate lawyer, working particularly on the financing of major projects; but a few years ago saw the light, …
Mahsa Abdollahyar

Mahsa joined a Prevention Centre project in April 2021. In her role, she developed agent- and activity-based modelling methods and applied this to the Suburban Rail Loop as a scenario for establishing how people in Melbourne may respond to the introduction of an orbital cross-city rail line. Since starting with the team, she has successfully sought scholarship …
Exploring inequities in housing affordability through an analysis of walkability and house prices by neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage