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.

 

Consultancy Clients

World Health Organisation 

Singapore Land Transport Authority

Southwestern Sydney Health Districts

Impact on Urban Health

Sustrans

Living Streets

Transport for New South Wales 

Urban Movement

Aecom

U+I

Transport for London

Transport for Greater Manchester

City of London Corporation

Witteveen + Bos

Bristol City Council

Hampshire County Council

Newham Council

Oxfordshire County Council

Portsmouth City Council

Hertfordshire County Council

Norfolk County Council

 

In the press

 

Academic

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).

 

Services

We support the people and organisations who can make a difference in shaping towns and cities everywhere.

 

Lucy inspires and challenges audiences around the world to think differently about what streets could be and how to make change happen. Find out more and watch some of her keynote addresses. 

Unlock the huge potential of taking this Approach. We run training, workshops and fieldtrips to suit your needs. These sessions are always participative and fun.

We support organisations at every step: Shaping policy & governance, engagement, consensus building, project development, delivery and monitoring. See how we can help you.