Associate Professor Caroline Shaw is a medical doctor, Public Health Medicine Specialist and epidemiologist in the Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington. She teaches postgraduate Environmental Health and is also involved in undergraduate teaching in the medical degree. Her research is at the interface of transport, health and climate change, particularly around the health and equity opportunities offered by decarbonising the transport sector.

A public health professional with 10+ years of working experience. Currently, I am in the second year of PhD study at the University of Auckland. My study will investigate the associations between transport modes used and risks of site-specific cancers using data from the United Kingdom and New Zealand. It will explore the possible underlying mechanisms using biomarker data and the effects of environmental factors. I graduated a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Myanmar and a Master of Public Health with specialization in health economics, policy, and management from Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. As a social development specialist, I worked with the Asian Development Bank to assess and support health and social development in road projects in Myanmar funded and managed by the Bank’s South East Asia Transport Department.

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Dr Marco Amati is a Professor of International Planning at the Centre for Urban Research and Program Manager for the Master of Urban Planning and Environment in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne. His research focuses on understanding urban greening at different scales. His most recent book is The City and the Superorganism (2021, Palgrave) that traces the history of biological thinking in urban planning.