Billie Giles-Corti
Professor and Inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow, RMIT University, Australia
Billie Giles-Corti is a Distinguished Professor and an Inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at RMIT University. For over two decades, she and a multi-disciplinary research team have been studying the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing. She currently leads the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab in RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research. Between 2017-2020 she was RMIT’s Urban Futures Enabling Capability Development Platform Inaugural Director. Between 2014 and 2020 she led an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities; and between 2007-2011 she was Foundation Director of UWA’s Centre for the Built Environment. She is a Technical Advisor of the Victorian Office of the Government Architect’s Design Review Panel, a member of the Victorian Planning Authority’s Precinct Structure Plan Review Committee, a member of Melbourne Water’s Liveability Panel and an Honorary Fellow of both the Planning Institute of Australia and the Public Health Association. She has published over 400 articles, book chapters and reports, and by citations, has been ranked in the top 1% of researchers in her field globally. She is Fulbright Scholar and in 2016, was an NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Senior Principal Research Fellow as the top ranked female NHMRC public health fellow.