Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers - CONFIRMED

Wednesday, 6 November 2019
11:45 – 13:15

Welcome to Country Smoking Ceremony

Aunty Joy Wandin Murphy
Senior Wurundjeri Elder of the Kulin Nation
Melbourne, Australia

Born in Healesville, Aunty Joy’s family never left Wurundjeri land and she is the great-great niece to William Barak, the last traditional Ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri-willam clan.

In 2002 Aunty Joy was awarded the Victorian Aboriginal Women's Award for being involved with Aboriginal Issues for 30 years. In 2006, she was made an officer of the Order of Australia "for her service to the community, particularly the Aborigines, through significant contributions in the fields of social justice, land rights, equal opportunity, art and reconciliation". Other roles she has include:

Honorary Professor at Swinburne University
Chair of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Victorian College of the Arts University of Melbourne,
Board member of Fraynework Multimedia (Sisters of Mercy)
Co-Patron for Keeping Koori Kids in Catholic Education and
Patron for Parliament of World Religions
Aunty Joy is also an Ambassador for BreastScreen Victoria, Australia Day Victoria and an Animis Ambassador for Zoos Victoria

In the past Aunty Joy has been a trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria, a member of the Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria, a member of the Victoria Police Ethical Standards Consultative Committee. In 2002 Aunty renamed our Indigenous Liaison Unit to Ngarn-gi Bagora Indigenous Centre. Ngarn-gi Bagora means place of learning in the Woi-wurrung language of the Wurundjeri people. And in 2015, Aunty Joy was appointed as inaugural University Elder for La Trobe University.

Keynote Address
The Impact of Disruptive Mobility & Place - Making for Healthy Living

Jennifer Mindell, University College London (UCL), will moderate the session. Jenny is a Professor of Public Health in the Health and Social Surveys Research Group of the Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at UCL. Jenny 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. Jenny was also Principal Investigator for a cross-disciplinary project developing tools to measure community severance by road traffic. She is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Transport and Health.

Associate Professor Hussein Dia
Chair, Dept. of Civil & Construction Engineering
Deputy Director & Program Leader Smart Cities Research Institute
Assoc. Professor Transport Engineering
Australia

Hussein is a Civil Engineer with three decades of experience in Intelligent Transport Systems and transport modelling. He has worked extensively in academia and has strong collaboration with both the public and private sectors, including strong engagement with industry research. His research interests are in smart infrastructure systems and the convergence of technology, infrastructure and human elements in urban environments. His current work is focused on disruptive mobility and harnessing digital innovations to unlock potential opportunities for low carbon mobility in tomorrow's smart cities. His standing in this field is demonstrated by more than 100 publications including a book on Intelligent Transport Systems published in 2014. His most recent book, Low Carbon Mobility for Future Cities, was published in 2017.

Hussein is a Chartered Professional Engineer, Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. He currently serves as Senior Editor for the international journal IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems.

Professor Susan Thompson
City Planning, Research Centre Staff, City Futures Research Centre, People & Place
UNSW Sydney
Australia

With a foundation in public sector planning practice, Susan joined UNSW over 25 years ago with a mission to investigate the relationship between people and place in terms of cultural diversity, health and well-being. She is one of the pioneers of urban planning for well-being in Australia.

Research translation and impact in the real world are fundamental to the way Susan works. Her research, teaching and outreach activities all focus on how to plan cities in ways that make it easy for people to engage in health-supportive behaviours as part of everyday living.

Susan believes that her field is of critical importance because human society is in the midst of a global explosion of chronic diseases (such as obesity, diabetes and mental illness) – all directly related to sedentary, car-based, isolated lifestyles and all costing society economically and socially. UNSW Built Environment is committed to building resilient and healthy cities, which is central to what Susan's personal mission.

Thursday, 7 November 2019
11:45– 13:15

Keynote Address
Disruptive Mobility: Could smart research ensure we have healthy people in disrupted cities?

The Institute of Transportation Engineers Australia/New Zealand (ITEANZ), President, Nick Szwed will provide a brief overview of ITEANZ and moderate the session.

Nick has worked in the road safety and traffic engineering field for around 40 years. Most of this has been at VicRoads and its various predecessors. During his final years at VicRoads he was developing road safety engineering policy and guidelines. He carried out the research and initiated the 40 km/h speed limits in strip shopping centres and 50 km/hr rural towns programs. He is currently semi-retired and occasionally provides consulting services in the areas of traffic engineering and road safety to Local Government, VicRoads and MUARC. Nick joined the ITEANZ Executive Board in 2009 and was Secretary from 2010 to 2013. He was elected President in 2014.

Councillor Nicolas Frances Gilley
City of Melbourne
Chair, Transport Portfolio & Aboriginal City Portfolio

Cr Frances Gilley worked in the corporate world of hospitality and stock broking in the United Kingdom. He started the Furniture Resource Centre and built this into the UK’s leading social enterprise organisation, providing assistance and employment opportunities to homeless people. For this, he was awarded the MBE. In 1996, he was ordained an Anglican priest and two years later he emigrated to Australia where he was the CEO of the Brotherhood of St. Laurence from 1998 to 2004. This work earned him an Australian Centenary Medal.

In 2004, Cr Frances Gilley founded and led for-profit environmental and social purpose businesses Easy Being Green and Cool nrg International. These businesses have worked with governments, the World Bank, UNFCCC, global financial institutions and some of Europe’s leading companies to develop and deliver groundbreaking climate and antipoverty programs globally. He was one of the first 30 social entrepreneurs selected to join the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum. Cr Frances Gilley is Council’s Chair of the Transport portfolio and Chair of the Aboriginal City portfolio. He is also the Council representative on the Metropolitan Transport Forum.

Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti
Director of its Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform
RMIT University
Australia

Professor Billie Giles-Corti is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Principal Research Fellow and directs the Centre for Urban Research’s Healthy Liveable Cities Research Group at RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research. Prior to joining RMIT in 2017, she was a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne and Director of the McCaughey VicHealth Community Well-being Unit.

For over two decades, Billie and a multi-disciplinary research team have been studying the impact of the built environment on health and well-being. She currently leads an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities established in 2014; which works closely with local, national and global policy-makers and practitioners. She is a Chief Investigator on the NHMRC Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, responsible for working with sectors outside of health; and leads a National Liveability Study funded by TAPPC. She is also the Liveability Lead for The Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub, which is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Programme and her team is currently mapping policy-relevant urban liveability indicators across all Australian capital cities.

Dr. Rhys Jones, MBChB, MPH, FNZCPHM
Senior Lecturer, Māori Health at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori
Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences
University of Auckland
New Zealand

Dr. Rhys Jones has tribal affiliations to Ngāti Kahungunu in Hawkes Bay, on the east coast of the North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. He is a Public Health Physician and Senior Lecturer in Māori Health at the University of Auckland. His research addresses Indigenous health and health equity with a particular focus on environmental influences on Māori health and well-being.

Dr. Jones is a passionate advocate for action on the social determinants of health, equity and indigenous rights. Rhys is Co-Convenor of OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council, a health professional organisation focusing on the health challenges of climate change and the health opportunities of climate action. His research and advocacy strongly relates to transport and health, examining ways in which transport policies and actions can contribute to meeting climate change, health and equity goals.