Planning Institute of Australia (Victoria) Award Winners!

November 14, 2022

In fantastic news, ICHENs program Leader, Professor Ester Cerin, was part of an elite team of researchers that won the Planning Institute of Australia (Victoria) Award for Planning Excellence- Planning Research (2022) for the project ‘Benchmarking Healthy and Sustainable Cities globally’.

This achievement was awarded to Billie Giles-Corti, Carl Higgs and Jonathan Arundel (RMIT), Ester Cerin (ACU) and Melanie Lowe (University of Melbourne) on behalf of the Global Healthy and Sustainable City-Indicators Collaboration.  Dr Melanie Lowe attended the awards ceremony night and accepted the award on behalf of the team. The project is now being considered for the national PIA awards early next year.

A fantastic achievement and congratulations to all involved!