Melanie Lowe
Research Fellow in Urban Resilience and Innovation, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Melanie Lowe is Research Fellow in Urban Resilience and Innovation in the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Melanie’s research investigates how to plan healthy cities, and the use of indicators to monitor and inform policy. She works at the interface of the public health and urban planning fields, highlighting the co-benefits that can be achieved for human health, sustainable development, liveability and urban resilience. She has published in highly ranked academic journals, including The Lancet, Social Science and Medicine and Planning Theory and Practice. Melanie works collaboratively with researchers and policymakers across a range of disciplines to strengthen consideration of health in city planning. Her research has been included in local, state and federal planning and public health policy documents in Australia.