About

Lucy Saunders

Healthy Streets was developed by Lucy Saunders through her research on the interface of urban spaces and human health. She is a unique combination of public health specialist, urbanist and transport planner.

Lucy works with organisations across the world adapting her Healthy Streets Approach to each context. She also collaborates with kind and brilliant people to create exciting new things that help to improve population health.

The success of this Approach is its wide-reaching resonance across political, special interest and professional divides. Lucy uses this Approach to engage, influence and coordinate a wide range of stakeholders around a coherent vision. She is a skilled and engaging presenter and teacher who has inspired and trained hundreds of practitioners, advocates and politicians around the world.

THE Healthy Streets Team

A team of brilliant people support Healthy Streets contributing their expertise on a consultancy basis. Design, engineering, GIS and data analytics, user-experience, web-development, finance, law and visual media name just some of the elements that come together to enable us to deliver great products, training and consultancy.

If you want to get more involved then get in touch and tell us about your skills.

World Health Organisation 

Singapore Land Transport Authority

Southwestern Sydney Health Districts

Impact on Urban Health

Sustrans

Living Streets

Transport for New South Wales 

Interview, 2019

Geert Kloppenburg podcast at Velocity

Radio New Zealand interview, 2018

Lucy gained Fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health in 2012 on completion of the UK specialist medical training programme in Public Health. She has masters degrees in geography and public health.

Lucy has published some of her primary research in peer-reviewed academic journals. 

Her academic publications include - 

Xiao, C., Sinclair, N., Saunders, L. & Panter, J. (2023) Evalating the impact of low traffic neighbourhoods in areas with low car ownership: A natural experiment evaluation. Journal of Transport and Health

Corran, P., Steinbach, R., Saunders, L. & Green, J. (2018) Age, disability and everyday mobility in London: an analysis of the correlates of ‘non-travel’ in travel diary data. Journal of Transport and Health

Fairnie, G., Wilby, D. & Saunders, L. (2016). Active travel in London: The role of travel survey data in describing population physical activity. Journal of Transport and Health, 3(2), 161-172.

McVean, B. and Saunders, L. (2015) Public Realm and public health in North American cities: reshaping cities to encourage and enable active travel in The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Heath and Well-Being. Routledge.

Ogilvie, F., Klowdawski, E., Fitzpatrick, J. & Saunders, L. (2014). Active Travel’s Contribution to physical activity levels in London: Analysis of data from the Active People’s Survey 2011/12. PHE Annual Conference, Poster.

Saunders, L., Green, J., Petticrew, M., Steinbach, R. and Roberts, H. (2013) What are the health benefits of active travel? A systematic review of trials and cohort studies. PLOS ONE, 8(8).