Designing cities with health in mind

Serious attempts to mitigate and live with climate change will force us to think about the design of our towns and cities; designs that will not only ease climate change, but contribute to human health.

An epidemiologist and Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health at the University of Melbourne, human health, Professor Mark Stevenson, discusses how we should design for the future.

He is a National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) Fellow, an Honorary Professor in the Peking University Health Science Centre, China and an advisor for injury to the Director General of the World Health Organisation.

Prof Stevenson has worked on numerous national and international projects that have directly influenced transport policy and worked with both Federal and State Governments in Australia and internationally.

He has led many research groups and is internationally recognized in the field of transport safety and public health. Prof Stevenson is the director of the newly established Urban Design, Transport and Health research hub comprising a cross-disciplinary research team exploring how the effects of urban form and transportation influence the health of residents in cities

Listen to Professor Mark Stevenson - “Designing cities with health in mind.”