'How To' Training Seminars

ICTH 2019-Melbourne is offering a full day of training on transport and health performance metric tools, Monday, 4 November. Registration for the training seminars can be made through the ICTH Registration link. Interested participants have the option to sign up for 1, 2, 3 or all 4 of the training seminars in combination with their ICTH registration or separately without attending ICTH.

Please note that if you register to attend ICTH and then decide to sign up for the training seminars, you must use a different email address. The system is set up to identify conference delegates by email address.

Training seminar Instructors are leading experts in their field of research with publications and practical experience. Participants will have the opportunity to learn real-world skills in administrating quantitative performance metrics used to evaluate the health impacts of a proposed/existing transport infrastructure project.

Each training seminar is $95 AUD (excluding GST and processing fee) or sign up for all four (4) seminars at a discounted rate of $350 (excludes GST and processing fee). These interactive sessions will last for approximately 2 hours (120 minutes). Lunch and break refreshments will be provided. Certificates of Completion will be presented to each participant at the end of the seminar.

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Health Impact Assessment
8:30 - 10:30

Lucy Gunn, PhD
Research Fellow
Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy, Liveable, Communities
RMIT Centre for Urban Research
Australia

Dr Lucy Gunn is a research fellow at RMIT University with over 20 years of experience in research and teaching in the fields of econometrics and urban research. Her key interest is in understanding which urban environments are supportive of health and wellbeing outcomes. Her research provides an evidence base to policy makers and planners on what constitutes good urban design and provides feedback on the implementation of current and previous urban plans and their impact on the health of residents. Recent projects have spanned topics including economic evaluation and health impact assessment of brownfield and greenfield sites, transit-oriented development in metropolitan Melbourne, and creating liveable cities using indicators of liveability. Lucy will be talking about the role of use of health impact assessment in planning healthy, liveable, cities.

Matthew Soeberg, PhD
Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy, Liveable, Communities
RMIT Centre for Urban Research
Australia

Dr Matt Soeberg is a public health expert with experience in health impact assessment and environmental health. He worked at the New Zealand Ministry of Health’s Health Impact Assessment Support Unit. During this time, around 30 health impact assessments were completed with a large number of those being evaluated. Matt has also worked for the World Health Organization’s environment and health teams on health impact assessment. Matt is passionate about health impact assessment, the links between environment and health and health inequalities. His PhD focused on ethnic and socioeconomic trends in cancer survival in New Zealand. Matt is currently working at Sustainability Victoria on a first-in-Australia randomised controlled trial looking at the health benefits of improved temperatures and energy efficiency in homes during winter. Matt will be talking about health impact assessment at this event based on his New Zealand and international experience.

Propensity to Cycle Tool
10:45 - 12:45

Richard Ellison, PhD
Associate Director of Data Science Consulting at DSpark Analytics (Singtel)
Sydney, Australia

Richard is currently Associate Director of Data Science Consulting at DSpark (Singtel) and Research Fellow at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at The University of Sydney. He is a developer of the sustainable transport planning for R package (stplanr) and has worked on a variety of projects in both academia and industry related to cycling, active transport more broadly, and the environmental effects of transport. These include projects related to GPS and smartphone-based travel surveys, and the use of large telecommunications datasets for problems involving road safety, effects of infrastructure investments, and health, and high speed rail. Richard has also been involved in the development of a land-use, transport and environment strategy simulator.

In addition to covering the PCT, Richard will also review the Cycling Infrastructure Prioritisation Toolkit (CyIPT). The CyIPT builds on methods developed for the PCT, but focuses on the questions "what to build where?" and "which schemes to prioritise?". In reality a piecemeal approach is insufficient to transform a city's transport infrastructure, so the CyIPT emphasise routes that join-up existing routes as part of an existing network, and demonstrates the scale of the change needed to provide cycling-friendly infrastructure city-wide. An overview of how the tool works can be found here: https://www.cyipt.bike/manual/

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Community Severance (Equity) Tool
13:30 - 15:30

Jenny Mindell, PhD
University College London (UCL)
United Kingdom

Dr Jennifer Mindell, Professor of public health doctor in the Health and Social Surveys Research Group of the Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at UCL (University College London), has experience in epidemiology, general practice, and health promotion. She leads the UCL Health Survey for England team and is health lead of UCL’s Transport Institute. Previously, she was Deputy Director of the London Health Observatory and led health impact assessments of the London Mayor’s Transport and other strategies. She was Principal Investigator for a cross-disciplinary project developing tools to measure community severance by road traffic. Dr Mindell was lead editor of the 2011 report Health on the Move2. She is Editor-in-chief of Journal of Transport and Health, former Co-chair (Science) of the Transport and Health Study Group, and chairs the UK Faculty of Public Health’s Health Improvement Committee. She supervises doctoral students in both the Population Health Sciences and the Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering Faculties.

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How to Evaluate the Complex Health Impacts of Transport Interventions
15:45 - 17:45

Melanie Crane, PhD
Research Fellow
Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Australia

Dr. Mel Crane is a public health researcher from the University of Sydney. She is an evaluation specialist on urban sustainability and health with an interest in complex program design and methodology. She has taught a number of workshops and forums on CPE in Australia and for international audiences as part of her work with the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. She is currently employed by a Wellcome Trust grant investigate complex urban systems approaches for urban sustainability and health. Dr. Crane has evaluated many complex state level and lifespan programs including evaluation of transport infrastructure projects.