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Hannah Badland

Hannah Badland

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
61
Citations
13203
World Ranking
1360
National Ranking
101

Overview

Hannah Badland is affiliated with RMIT University in Australia and specializes primarily in the Social Sciences. Their research encompasses several interconnected subfields, including General Health Professions, Health, Transportation, Education, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their scholarly output focuses on various research topics such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Noise Effects and Management

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Amanda Alderton (18 publications)
  • Sharon Goldfeld (11 publications)
  • Meredith O'Connor (11 publications)
  • Carl Higgs (10 publications)
  • Roger J. Stancliffe (10 publications)

Hannah Badland publishes regularly in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (6 publications)
  • International Journal of Epidemiology (6 publications)
  • RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) (4 publications)
  • Health Promotion Journal of Australia (4 publications)
  • Academic Pediatrics (3 publications)

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Hannah Badland include:

  • "Creating healthy and sustainable cities: what gets measured, gets done" (2022), published in The Lancet Global Health
  • "Liveable, healthy, sustainable: What are the key indicators for Melbourne neighbourhoods?" (2024), published in RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library)
  • "Living liveable? RESIDE's evaluation of the "Liveable Neighborhoods" planning policy on the health supportive behaviors and wellbeing of residents in Perth, Western Australia" (2020), published in SSM - Population Health
  • "The Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework: data, data gaps, and policy implications" (2020), published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • "Inequities in Children's Reading Skills: The Role of Home Reading and Preschool Attendance" (2021), published in Academic Pediatrics

Best Publications

  • City planning and population health: a global challenge

    Billie Giles-Corti;Anne Vernez-Moudon;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;Gavin Turrell;Gavin Turrell

  • Public open space, physical activity, urban design and public health: Concepts, methods and research agenda

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Suzanne Mavoa;Karen Villanueva;Karen Villanueva;Takemi Sugiyama;Takemi Sugiyama

  • Transport, urban design, and physical activity: an evidence-based update

    Hannah Badland;Grant Schofield

  • Do low-income neighbourhoods have the least green space? A cross-sectional study of Australia's most populous cities.

    Thomas Astell-Burt;Thomas Astell-Burt;Xiaoqi Feng;Suzanne Mavoa;Hannah M Badland

  • Associations of children's independent mobility and active travel with physical activity, sedentary behaviour and weight status: A systematic review

    Stephanie Schoeppe;Mitch J. Duncan;Hannah Badland;Melody Oliver

  • Urban liveability: Emerging lessons from Australia for exploring the potential for indicators to measure the social determinants of health

    Hannah Badland;Carolyn Whitzman;Melanie Lowe;Melanie Davern

  • Perceived neighborhood environmental attributes associated with walking and cycling for transport among adult residents of 17 cities in 12 countries: the IPEN study

    Jacqueline Kerr;Jennifer A Emond;Hannah Badland;Rodrigo S. Reis

  • An ethical framework for automated, wearable cameras in health behavior research

    Paul Kelly;Simon J. Marshall;Hannah Badland;Jacqueline Kerr

  • Can virtual streetscape audits reliably replace physical streetscape audits

    Hannah M. Badland;Simon Opit;Karen Witten;Robin A. Kearns

  • International comparisons of the associations between objective measures of the built environment and transport-related walking and cycling: IPEN adult study

    Lars Breum Christiansen;Ester Cerin;Ester Cerin;Hannah Badland;Jacqueline Kerr

  • Using the SenseCam to Improve Classifications of Sedentary Behavior in Free-Living Settings

    Jacqueline Kerr;Simon J. Marshall;Suneeta Godbole;Jacqueline Chen

  • Advancing Science and Policy Through a Coordinated International Study of Physical Activity and Built Environments: IPEN Adult Methods

    Jacqueline Kerr;James F Sallis;James F Sallis;Neville Owen;Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of the Influence of the Neighborhood Built Environment on Walking for Transportation The RESIDE Study

    Matthew W Knuiman;Hayley E Christian;Mark L Divitini;Sarah A Foster

  • Planning Healthy, Liveable and Sustainable Cities: How Can Indicators Inform Policy?

    Melanie Lowe;Carolyn Whitzman;Hannah Badland;Melanie Davern

  • Neighborhood Built Environment and Transport and Leisure Physical Activity: Findings Using Objective Exposure and Outcome Measures in New Zealand

    Karen Witten;Tony Blakely;Nasser Bagheri;Hannah Badland

  • Applying GPS to enhance understanding of transport-related physical activity.

    Mitch J. Duncan;Hannah M. Badland;W. Kerry Mummery

  • Developing indicators of public open space to promote health and wellbeing in communities

    Karen Villanueva;Karen Villanueva;Hannah Badland;Paula Hooper;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari

  • Travel behavior and objectively measured urban design variables: Associations for adults traveling to work

    Hannah M. Badland;Grant M. Schofield;Nicholas Garrett

  • (Re)Designing the built environment to support physical activity: Bringing public health back into urban design and planning

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Hannah Badland;Billie Giles-Corti

  • Examining associations between urban design attributes and transport mode choice for walking, cycling, public transport and private motor vehicle trips

    Claire Boulange;Lucy Gunn;Billie Giles-Corti;Suzanne Mavoa

  • Combining GPS, GIS, and Accelerometry: Methodological Issues in the Assessment of Location and Intensity of Travel Behaviors

    Melody Oliver;Hannah M. Badland;Suzanne Mavoa;Mitch J. Duncan

Frequent Co-Authors

Suzanne Mavoa
Suzanne Mavoa University of Melbourne
Karen Witten
Karen Witten Massey University
Mitch J. Duncan
Mitch J. Duncan University of Newcastle Australia
Mohammad Javad Koohsari
Mohammad Javad Koohsari Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Robin Kearns
Robin Kearns University of Auckland
Sharon Goldfeld
Sharon Goldfeld University of Melbourne
Jacqueline Kerr
Jacqueline Kerr University of California, San Diego
Takemi Sugiyama
Takemi Sugiyama Swinburne University of Technology
Gavin Turrell
Gavin Turrell RMIT University
Hayley Christian
Hayley Christian University of Western Australia

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