MPavilion Opening November 2020

Dr Melanie Davern

Dr Melanie Davern is Co-Director of the Healthy Liveable Cities Group and Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University. Melanie is also the Director of recently launched Australian Urban Observatory (auo.org.au) a new digital platform providing liveability indicators for the 21 largest cities of Australia available at municipal, suburb and neighbourhood geographies. Melanie has specific expertise in indicators or the quantification of social, economic and environmental measures of wellbeing that assess the social determinants of health as well as the translation of research knowledge into policy and practice.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.