Researcher

My Expertise

  • Environmental and health impact assessment
  • Urban planning
  • Transport
  • Infrastructure appraisal

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Urban and Regional Planning, Transportation and Freight Services, Public Health and Health Services, Econometric and Statistical Methods, Welfare Economics

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Biography

I am a Research Fellow in Urban Development within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at UNSW Sydney, working in a joint role with Sydney Local Health District.

My work focuses on how urban planning, infrastructure and public policy decisions affect health, equity and wellbeing. I am particularly interested in improving impact assessment and business case methods to better reflect health, sustainability and liveability outcomes.

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I am a Research Fellow in Urban Development within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at UNSW Sydney, working in a joint role with Sydney Local Health District.

My work focuses on how urban planning, infrastructure and public policy decisions affect health, equity and wellbeing. I am particularly interested in improving impact assessment and business case methods to better reflect health, sustainability and liveability outcomes.

My research combines quantitative, spatial and mixed-methods approaches, with experience in health impact assessment, business case development, travel behaviour, welfare economics, spatial analytics and data science. Much of my work has been applied and undertaken in collaboration with government and health-sector partners.

Current and recent projects include health impact assessments relating to major urban redevelopment and infrastructure projects, development of methods for assessing the health and equity impacts of infrastructure, and spatial analysis to support public health planning and policy development.

I also teach and develop courses and professional training in areas including health impact assessment, transport planning, geospatial analytics, data science, quantitative methods and visual data analytics.

I am an editorial board member for Oxford Open Infrastructure and Health and the Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research.


My Grants

City of Sydney Community Services Grant: "Community-led Health Impact Assessment of the Waterloo Redevelopment" (2025).

Public Health Wales: "Development work to better understand the strategic inclusion of health and health inequalities in Local Development Plans in Wales" (2024). $38,103

CPHCE Research Stream Seed Funding Scheme: "Embedding health into urban planning education" (2023).

NSW Ministry of Health: “NSW Active Transport Health Model Phase 3” (2021).

Healthy Urban Environments Collaboratory Seed Funding Scheme: "Waterloo housing estate redevelopment: Longitudinal assessment/study of residents’ health needs and circumstances (pilot project)" (2020).

University of Sydney Business School Pilot Research Grant: "Looking for Positives: Health, Wellbeing and Active Transport Following a Pandemic" (2020).

Charles Perkins Centre Seed Funding Scheme: “Evaluation of the health impact of new urban motorway infrastructure” (2019).

City of Sydney Environmental Grant: “Profiling of George Street cycleway users for a community social marketing program” (2014).

 


My Qualifications

PhD

Master of Environmental Management

BSc (Hons.) Physics and Computer Science


My Awards

Sydney Local Health District Innovation and Excellence Award: Health Innovation and Research, Highly Commended (2023)

Dean's Citation for Teaching, University of Sydney Business School (2020)

Australian Postgraduate Award Industry Scholarship (2013)


My Research Supervision


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Areas of supervision

I welcome supervision enquiries about PhD/masters/honours research on:

  • urban planning, travel behaviour and health;
  • the relationships between them; and
  • translation into policy and practice.

 

Potential research topics/questions:

 

All enquiries should include a CV and a brief (about two pages) research proposal.

For information about scholarships, see https://research.unsw.edu.au/graduate-research-scholarships.

For information about admission requirements, see https://research.unsw.edu.au/submit-application.


My Engagement

Expert witness

Consulting

  • Health impact assessment for Sydney Metro West project
  • Economic Active Transport Project to deliver a best-practice method to cost the health benefits of active transport in NSW

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My Teaching

My teaching experience includes:

  • Course design and coordination
    • Transport planning
    • Health impact assessment
    • Supply chain planning/design
    • Climate change and health
  • Lecturing/tutoring
    • GIS/spatial data analytics
    • Inequalities, inequities and health
    • Quantitative methods for transport/logistics
    • Data science
    • Visual data analytics
  • Guest lecturing
    • Environmental health
    • Transport, sustainability and health
    • Regional landscape outreach studio
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Location

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Contact

+61-2-9065 6081