Professor Mark Stevenson

Professor Mark Stevenson

Transport, Health, and Urban Systems Research Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning; Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology; and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

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Environment

It’s time to put Australia’s car dependency in reverse

Repurposing our streets away from a focus on cars is crucial to creating more accessible and sustainable cities

How many 20-minute neighbourhoods does Melbourne really have?

Walkable cities are gaining traction. Our Map of the Month shows which Melbourne suburbs are walking distance to childcare, pharmacies and GPs

Environment

Decarbonising transport for our health

Transforming Australia’s carbon-intensive road transport system can also solve one of our most significant public health challenges

Sciences & Technology

Giving Australians ‘smart’ incentives to drive safe

Personalised driver feedback and financial incentives are part of innovative strategies to respond to Australia’s increasing rates of road trauma

Sciences & Technology

Our health is compromised by our global fossil fuel addiction

Climate change is affecting the health of people around the world; transitioning to net-zero emissions could be the greatest health opportunity this century

Environment

Clear skies and longer lives

Global COVID-19 pandemic restrictions provided a natural experiment in understanding the relationship between transport and air pollution

Environment

Australia given serious health warning on climate change

Research monitoring the health impact of climate change highlights the escalating global emergency and the threat to the Australian way of life.

Health & Medicine

We need to talk about elimination vs suppression in Australia again

New epidemiological and economic modelling finds that elimination is better than a suppression strategy for COVID-19

Health & Medicine

The impact of air pollution on life expectancy

Air pollution is already having devastating effects on human health, now a new study shows how particulate matter in the air is associated with premature deaths

Health & Medicine

Modelling Victoria’s escape from COVID-19

Dynamic policy models can help us think through how we get to ‘COVID-Normal’. Here the researchers behind the latest modelling explain what it does and doesn’t do