Seminar: "Supportive environments for child health and wellbeing: a social determinants of health lens", by Amanda Alderton

Dr. Amanda Alderton will be giving a seminar in the framework of the SGR Urban Mobility.

Title: "Supportive environments for child health and wellbeing: a social determinants of health lens"

Speaker: Dr. Amanda Alderton, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia)

Date: Friday, October 6th 2023
Time: 10.30h
Venue: Room Z/023 ICTA-UAB

Dr Amanda Alderton is a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). Drawing on her experience as a classroom teacher, Amanda works across disciplines including public health, urban studies, and developmental psychology. She holds a PhD in Global, Urban and Social Studies (RMIT University) and a Master of Public Health (University of Melbourne).

Dr Alderton’s research seeks to understand the causes and consequences of health inequities: disparities in health between population groups that arise not through biology, but due to unequal living conditions, and are therefore preventable and unjust. Her research interests also include the study of neighbourhood effects, the built environment, place-based interventions, and positive mental health. Her work aims to identify how the neighbourhood built environment can be targeted to address mental health inequities during critical windows of child development (e.g., early childhood, adolescence) which set the foundations for mental health across the life course.