We are thrilled to introduce Billie Giles-Corti as a keynote speaker for the ASPA 2024 Conference!

Billie Giles-Corti is Professor Emerita at RMIT University, with a distinguished career spanning nearly three decades. She and her multi-disciplinary research team have made significant strides in studying the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing.

From 2017-2022, she led the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab in RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research and the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities. She was also a Chief Investigator for the NHMRC-supported Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, leading a national liveability study which culminated in the launch of the Australian Urban Observatory in 2022.

Her extensive work includes co-leading The Lancet Series on Urban Design, Transport, and Health in 2016 and a second Lancet Global Health series in 2022, involving over 80 collaborators from 25 cities across 19 countries and six continents.

Billie Giles-Corti is a Fulbright Scholar, an Honorary Fellow of both the Planning Institute of Australia and the Public Health Association, and has published over 400 articles, book chapters, and reports. She is ranked in the top 1% of researchers globally by citations.

Join us at ASPA 2024 to gain insights from one of the leading experts in urban health and liveability!

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