Màster de Sostenibilitat - Inauguració del curs acadèmic 2018-2019. Lliçó inaugural de la prof. B.Giles-Corti (RMIT University)

L'Institut Universitari de Recerca en Ciència i Tecnologies de la Sostenibilitat inaugura el curs acadèmic 2018-2019 amb la lliçó inaugural Creating healthy liveable and sustainable cities: are we there yet? a càrrec de la professora Billie Giles-Corti (RMIT University - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)

L’acte d’inauguració tindrà lloc el dijous 4 d'Octubre, a les 10:00 hores, a la Sala de Tesines C1 (Campus Nord, UPC. (planta 0, Edifici C1). 

Professor Giles-Corti is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Principal Research Fellow and directs the Centre for Urban Research’s Healthy Liveable Cities Research Group at RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research.  Prior to joining RMIT in 2017, she was a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne and Director of the McCaughey VicHealth Community Wellbeing Unit.

For over two decades, Billie and a multi-disciplinary research team have been studying the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing.  She currently leads an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities established in 2014; which works closely with local, national and global policy-makers and practitioners.  She is a Chief Investigator on the NHMRC Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, responsible for working with sectors outside of health; and leads a National Liveability Study funded by TAPPC.  She is also the Liveability Lead for The Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub, which is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Programme and her team is currently mapping policy-relevant urban liveability indicators across all Australian capital cities.

She has published over 300 articles, book chapters and reports, and by citations, is ranked in the top 1% of researchers in her field globally.  She is an Honorary Fellow of both the Planning Institute of Australia and the Public Health Association, a Fulbright Scholar and in 2016, was awarded an NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship as the top ranked female fellow in public health in 2015.