Dr Ben Beck is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Head of Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (SPHPM) at Monash University. He is the President of the Australasian Injury Prevention Network; the peak body for injury prevention in Australia and New Zealand.

Ben is an applied injury prevention and public health researcher, with a specific focus on enhancing safety and uptake of active and sustainable modes of transport. Ben leads an interdisciplinary team that brings together experts in injury prevention, public health, road safety, urban and transport planning, and engineering. His team’s work is grounded in robust and diverse research methods across the domains of epidemiology, statistics, spatial analytics, data linkage, machine learning and qualitative methods.

Ben is an invited member on key national and international policy committees, including the United Nations ‘Green and Healthy Sustainable Transport Taskforce’. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles and technical reports, secured more than $7 million of research funding and won international awards for his research. As an engineer working in a School of Public Health, Ben prides himself on his ability to bring together international leaders across a breadth of fields and disciplines to solve complex local and global problems in partnership with government and non-government organisations. His work has directly informed transport and safety policy in Australia and internationally.

Ben is driven by a passion to create safe, healthy, equitable and sustainable environments for all.