Lucy SAUNDERS

Biographical note
Lucy is a public health specialist with ten years experience.  She leads the integration of transport and public health in London working jointly for the Greater London Authority and Transport for London (TfL). Lucy developed the Healthy Streets Approach which she is embedding across TfL.  In 2014 TfL became the first transport authority in the world to publish a Health Action Plan which Lucy wrote and lead the implementation of.

Lucy has previously worked across a wide range of organisations from local to international level including UK National Health Service, UK Department of Health, World Health Organisation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, private and voluntary sector organisations.  She is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health and was awarded Transport Planner of the Year 2015.

Presentation: Embedding health in transport planning
The Healthy Streets Approach is an evidence-based approach for creating fairer, sustainable, attractive urban spaces in which everyone can choose to walk, cycle and use public transport.  London has adopted the Healthy Streets Approach and Transport for London is embedding this into policy and practice with new governance, communications, assurance system and monitoring.  This fresh new approach puts people and their health at the heart of decision  making with the overall objective of making London a healthier city.