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Invited presentations and symposia

2024

  • Hernández-Alcaraz, C., Resendiz, E., Jáuregui, A., Salvo, D. Engaging local decision makers to join the 1000 Cities Challenge in Mexico. In Salvo, D. (Chair), The 1000 Cities Challenge: Scaling Up the Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities. The International Society of Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) 10th Congress, Paris, France. (Invited Symposium Presentation).
  • Anna Puig-Ribera, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Marc Domínguez-Mallafré, Ana Queralt, Javier Molina-García, (2024). Using evidence-based urban indicators and open science to promote active and sustainable cities in Spain. In Salvo, D. (Chair), The 1000 Cities Challenge: Scaling Up the Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities. The International Society of Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) 10th Congress, Paris, France. (Invited Symposium Presentation)
  • Boeing, G., Higgs, C., Liu, S., Heikinheimo, V., Giles-Corti, B., Sallis, J., Cerin, E., Lowe, M., Adlakha, D., Hinckson, E., Vernez Moudon, A., Salvo, D., Resendiz, E., Arundel, J. Analytics and Tools to Calculate Spatial Indicators of Healthy and Sustainable Cities for the 1000 Cities Challenge. In Salvo, D. (Chair), The 1000 Cities Challenge: Scaling Up the Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities. The International Society of Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) 10th Congress, Paris, France. (Invited Symposium Presentation)
  • Lowe, M., Adlakha, D., Sallis, J., Salvo, D., Resendiz, E., Cerin, E., Vernez Moudon, A., Higgs, C., Hinckson, E., Arundel, J., Boeing, G., Liu, S., Heikinheimo, V., Giles-Corti, B. Policy indicators of healthy and sustainable urban design and planning for the 1000 Cities Challenge. In Salvo, D. (Chair), The 1000 Cities Challenge: Scaling Up the Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities. The International Society of Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) 10th Congress, Paris, France. (Invited Symposium Presentation)
  • Lowe M. (2024). Developing indicators to support healthy, climate resilient cities, AXA Research Fund, Paris, France, 29 October.
  • Sallis, J and Salvo, D. (2024). Developing and Scaling Up a Global Monitoring System for Healthy and Sustainable Cities. The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living School of Public Health, UTHealth, Houston, USA. 03 September.
  • Lowe, M., (2024). From down under to around the globe: A vision for healthier cities, Podcast recording for Healthy Neighbourhoods, Healthy Nation podcast, USA,.
  • Higgs C (2024) Urban spatial inequities and the social determinants of health. Guest Lecture Human Geography undergraduate course. RMIT University. 16 September 2024. Invited lecture.

2023

  • Boeing, G. “Spatial Analytics to Benchmark and Monitor Healthy and Sustainable Cities.” Exploring the Research Opportunities from the Intersection of Advancing Planetary Health and Cardiovascular Disease: Improving Human Health. Hosted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dec 14–15, 2023. Symposia
  • Sallis, J.F. “Indicators for healthy and sustainable cities: Scaling-up evidence-informed policies.” World Health Cities Forum. Incheon, Korea. November 23, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Sallis, J.F. “International evidence on built environments and physical activity: Translating evidence to policy with the 1000 Cities Challenge.” AURI (Architecture and Urban Research Institute). Sejong, Korea. November 27, 2023. Lecture for AURI staff. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “The 1,000 Cities Challenge.” Cities, Form, Environmental Exposures, and Health Impacts. Hosted by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. Sitges, Spain. Oct 24–25, 2023. Symposia
  • Boeing, G. “Measuring Built Environments around the World: New Insights into Urban Sustainability and Health.” Tech in the City Speaker Series. Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio. Feb 10, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Urban Informatics for Transport: Measuring Networks and Access around the World.” University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. Washington, DC. Feb 17, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Adlakha, D. & Sallis, J.F. (2023). “Placemaking: City design for public health” Sponsored by Bawtaqah Foundation and Hayy Jameel. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. February 4, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Adlakha, D. & Sallis, J.F. (2023). “Built environments, physical activity, and heath: International evidence and its translation to policy and practice.” Public lecture organized by Bawtaqah Foundation. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. January 28, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Higgs C (2023) Data governance and visualisation for spatial indicators of healthy and sustainable cities. 5th International Workshop on Urban Data Visualization (CityVis). IEEE VIS 2023 Conference, Melbourne. 22 October 2023. Invited presentation.
  • Higgs C (2023) International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) Accelerating City Equity (ACE) project Oceania working group workshops. 11th International Conference on Urban Climate. UNSW, Sydney. 28 August - 1 September 2023. Invited presentation.
  • Higgs C (2023) Urban inequalities and health. Human Geography undergraduate course. RMIT University. 23 August 2023. Invited lecture.
  • Higgs C (2023) Open Scholarship at RMIT: Library Research Spotlight, RMIT Library Research Spotlight series. 16 August 2023. Invited presentation and panelist.

2022

  • Higgs C, Boeing G, Liu S, Arundel J, Giles-Corti B, Sallis JF, Cerin E, Lowe M, Adlakha D, Hinckson E, Moudon AV, Salvo D (2022) Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities in diverse global contexts. Urban Transitions 2022 Conference, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. 10 November 2022. Conference presentation.
  • Higgs C (2022) Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features to assess whether cities are healthy, sustainable and equitable. In Symposium: Are urban design and transport policies creating healthy, sustainable equitable cities across the world? Global Healthy and Sustainable City-Indicators Study Collaboration. International Conference on Urban Health, Valencia. 26 October 2022. Invited presentation.
  • Higgs C (2022) Bright Spot Deeper Dive: Healthy Liveable Cities Liveability Indicators Research Programme. International Society for Urban Health Achieving City Equity project Oceania Working Group Meeting. 18 October 2022. Invited presentation.
  • Higgs C (2022) Spatial Indicators of Urban Liveability and Sustainability: local to global. Guest lecture for 'Global Environmental Change: Disasters, Disease and Sustainability' theme of Human Geography undergraduate course. RMIT University. 3 October 2022. Invited lecture.
  • Higgs C (2022) Adelaide Healthy and Sustainable City Indicators Report: Spatial indicators of urban design and transport features. The Lancet Global Health Series on urban design, transport and health – Launch Event (Adelaide). Wellbeing SA. 20 September 2022. Invited presentation.
  • Higgs C (2022) Making a difference with spatial urban indicators: from local to global. Presentation to SA Health. 20 September 2022. Invited presentation.
  • Sallis, J.F. “Healthy and sustainable cities. Physical Activity and Public Health Researcher Course.” Sponsored by CDC. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. September 16, 2022. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Measuring Healthy, Sustainable Cities: Global Urban Indicators from Open Data.” World Planning Schools Congress. Nusa Dua, Indonesia. Aug 29–Sep 2, 2022. Conference presentation
  • Higgs C, Boeing G, Liu S, Arundel J, Giles-Corti B, Sallis JF, Cerin E, Lowe M, Adlakha D, Hinckson E, Moudon AV, Salvo D (2022) Spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities: a 25-city study. 17 June 2022. Planetary Futures of Health and Wellbeing, Turku, Finland [online]. Conference presentation.
  • Boeing, G. “Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World.” National University of Singapore, Department of Real Estate seminar series. Singapore. Mar 14, 2022. Invited presentation

2021

  • Higgs C (2021) Spatial indicators of urban liveability: scaling from local to global. Lecture. Postgraduate Course in Urban Planning and Health: Urban Planning as a Health Tool. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña · Barcelona Tech – UPC (online). 3 December 2021. Invited lecture.
  • Lowe, M, Adlahka D, Giles-Corti B, Cerin E, Higgs C, Liu S, Salvo D (2021) Urban policy to create healthy and sustainable cities: Evaluating and comparing Australasian cities in a global context. 2021 State of Australasian Cities (SOAC) Conference: Melbourne, Australia. November 2021. Conference presentation.
  • Higgs C, Rozek J, Alderton A, Giles-Corti B et al (2021) Calculation of policy-relevant spatial indicators of urban liveability: Experiences of scaling a research programme from local to global. 2021 State of Australasian Cities (SOAC) Conference: Melbourne, Australia. November 2021. Conference presentation.
  • Boeing, G. “Urban Morphology and Street Network Science.” University of Cincinnati, Department of Geography. Cincinnati, Ohio. Oct 15, 2021. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Street Network Science and New Urban Data.” Cornell University, Tech Campus. Urban Data guest lecture. New York, New York. Oct 13, 2021. Invited presentation
  • Higgs C and the Global Healthy Liveable Cities Collaborators (2021) Estimating population access to built environment features across global cities: data, methods and some findings. Centre for Urban Research Seminar Series. RMIT University: Melbourne, Australia. May 2021. Invited presentation.
  • Boeing, G. “Street Networks and the Evolving Urban Structure.” CEMFI Empirical Microeconomics seminar series. Madrid, Spain. Apr 8, 2021. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World.” University of Bristol and Newcastle University Centre for Data. Spatial Analytics and Data seminar series. Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Jan 26, 2021. Invited presentation

2020

  • Boeing, G. “Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World.” Asian Institute of Management. The Science of Data seminar series. Makati, Philippines. Oct 26, 2020. Invited presentation
  • Higgs C, Badland H, Giles-Corti B, Simons K (2020) Urban liveability: a social determinants of health perspective on walkability. International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) 2020 Conference invited presentation and discussion for symposium ‘S.3.39 How can research help deliver more walkable streets?’. Auckland, New Zealand (virtual session, international). June 2020.

Conference Presentations

2024

  • Lowe, M., Higgs, C., Boeing, G., Delclòs Alió, X., Queralt, A., Heikinheimo, V., Resendiz, E., Adlakha, D., Giles-Corti, B., Cerin, E., Sallis, J., Vernez Moudon, A., Arundel, J., Liu, S., Schipperijn, J., Salvo, D. 1000 Cities Challenge workshop: Calculating policy and spatial indicators of healthy and sustainable cities. Urban Transitions Conference. Sitges, Spain. (Oral presentation)
  • Melanie Lowe, Ryan Turner, Carl Higgs, Eugen Resendiz, Daria Pugacheva, Ruoyu Chen, Vuokko Heikinheimo, Shiqin Liu, Deepti Adlakha, Atefeh Soleimani Roudi, Case Garza, Rossano Schifanella, Ruth Hunter, Joanna Valson, Giavani Longo Rosa, Javier Molina-Garcfa, Ana Queralt, Pau Serra del Pozo, Mahtab Baghaiepoor, Global Healthy and Sustainable City-­Indicators Collaboration (2024). Developing and testing open-access urban green space policy and spatial indicators for cities internationally, Urban Transitions Conference 2024, Sitges, Spain, 5 November.
  • Ruth M. Mabry, Amal Al Siyabi, Huda Al Siyabi, Gustavo de Siqueira and Melanie Lowe (2024). Urban design, transport and health: does Oman meet evidence-based standards? The International Society of Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) 10th Congress, Paris, France, 29 October.
  • Ana Luiza Favarão Leão, Milena Franco Silva, Raul Gierbolini-Rivera, Courtney Shaw, Áine O'Connor, Eugen Resendiz, Melanie Lowe, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, Deborah Salvo (2024). Assessing liveability in St Louis City through spatial and policy analysis, 8th Healthy City Design 2024 Congress, Liverpool, UK, 16 October

Other presentations

2022

Citations

The World Bank used some of our recent findings and data in their “Enablers of Inclusive Cities” report with the G20 India Presidency. Nice evidence of our work’s impact: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/058d5657-fe16-476c-8c94-691773410fb5

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Plan periodic reassessments to monitor progress

Your team can continue to work together to advocate for progress and serve as a resource for city leaders.

Repeating the calculation of indicators every few years provides occasions to celebrate progress, identify continuing, and update goals.

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Present results to city leaders & build consensus for an improvement plan

You are now ready to organize one or more meetings or events to present results to city leaders and encourage their use in setting goals to improve policies and environments in your cities.

It is useful to have people from multiple sectors involved in the presentations.There are recordings of local events in which indicators are presented to city leaders on the website.

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Submit your data, Scorecard, and Report for inclusion on the Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities website

Send your city’s finalised Scorecard and/or Report to info@healthysustainablecities.org, for upload to the Global Observatorywebsite.

Your city will officially be included in the 1000 Cities Challenge, and city teams will become part of our Global Healthy and Sustainable City-Indicators Collaboration.

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Compute spatial and policy indicators using the Global Healthy & Sustainable City Indicators (GHSCI) Software

Check your data and indicator results to ensure they are as accurate as possible. Validation checklists and the Global Observatory team will assist with validation.

Please contact our team for support: info@healthysustainablecities.org

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Compute spatial and policy indicators using the Global Healthy & Sustainable City Indicators (GHSCI) Software

Use the GHSCI Software to:

  • Configure and analyze spatial data
  • Upload the Policy Checklist for analysis
  • Generate indicator outputs (e.g., maps, summary reports for validation and comparison)
  • Please contact our team if you require support using the GHSCI Software

Policy indicators include:

Metropolitan transport policy with health-focused actions

Air pollution policies for transport and land-use planning

Requirements for public transport access to employment and services

Employment distribution requirements

Parking restrictions to discourage car use

Minimum public open space access requirements

Street connectivity requirements

Provision of pedestrian infrastructure and targets for walking participation

Provision of cycling infrastructure and targets for cycling participation

Housing density requirements

Minimum requirements for public transport access and targets for public transport use

Publicly available information on government expenditure for different transport modes

Spatial indicators include:

Population with access to fresh food market or supermarket

Population living in neighbourhoods above minimum density threshold for WHO physical activity target

Population with access to regularly running formal public transport (<20 mins)

Population living in neighbourhoods above the median walkability across cities

Population living in neighbourhoods above minimum connectivity threshold for WHO physical activity target

Population with access to any public open space

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Collect data

Policy data

  1. Identify the relevant level(s) of government for your analysis, and the government sectors responsible for the policy areas covered in the Policy Checklist.
  2. Conduct a search of government or public websites and repositories to identify relevant policy documents.
  3. Find and enter relevant policy details into the 1000 Cities Challenge Policy Checklist.

Spatial data

  1. Confirm the existence of the required spatial data.
  2. Download data for analysis of your urban area.
DataPurposeRequired
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap .pbf file with coverage of the region (and time) of interest; this could be an historical planet file, or a region-specific excerptYes
Population GridsPopulation distribution raster grid or vector data with coverage of urban region of interest. GHS population grid (R2023) is recommendedYes
Region BoundaryVector boundary for identifying study region (e.g. geopackage, geojson or shp).Conditional
Urban RegionGlobal Human Settlements Layer Urban Centres database and/or administrative boundary for urban region of interestConditional
Transit FeedsCollections of zipped GTFS feeds to represent public transport service frequencyNo
OtherOther custom data, such as points of interestNo

Further information and guidance on how to collect policy and spatial data is available on the Global Observatory website, Resources tab

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Seek advice from country/regional mentor

The Global Observatory team, including country/regional coordinators can act as mentors or guides and will be able to answer questions related to the data collection plan, policy and spatial indicators computation, and generation of the Scorecard and Report.

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Generate a Data Collection and Analysis Plan

  • Download and familiarize yourself with the Policy Checklist.
  • Review the steps for the Indicators Software available from the Global Observatory website, Resources tab.
  • Develop a policy data collection plan and identify who will collect the data.

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Attend or watch an information and/or training session