Publications
Journal Publications
2026
Journal of Transport & Health
Supporting adolescent physical activity through walkable neighbourhoods: Evidence from Indian cities during COVID-19
Megha Tyagi, Deepti Adlakha, Laxman Singh Bisht
Cities & Health
Places for community and community resilience: case of Verhalenhuis Belvédère
Sahar Asadollahi Asl Zarkhah, Machiel van Dorst & Deepti Adlakha
PLOS Climate
A global research and evaluation agenda for centering health and equity in city Climate Action Plans
Adlakha, D., Heaney, A. K., Olazabal, M., Grafakos, S., Lowe, M., Pathak, M., Frumkin, H., Bikomeye, J. C., Reis, R., Capretz, N., & Sallis, J. F.
2025
Urban Climate, 64, 102716
Development and validation of the Global Urban Heat Vulnerability Index (GUHVI)
Turner, R., Higgs, C., Sun, C., Resendiz, E., Peng, K., Cheng, X., Hunter, R., Boeing, G., Pugacheva, D., Chen, R., Adlakha, D., Kedar, V., Rosa, G. L., Oyeyemi, A., Schifanella, R., del Pozo, P. S., Peraza-Mues, G., Valson, J., Cerin, E.,…Lowe, M.
Cities & Health 2025, Vol. 9, No. 5, 785–788
Urban environments at the frontline of climate breakdown and health: planning, design, and management
Lau, K., Adlakha, D., Eldesoky, A., Kasle, S., & Grant, M.
Cities & Health, 1-22
Determinants and indicators of healthy, climate resilient cities: a scoping review.
Soleimani Roudi, A., Higgs, C., Gunn, L., Butt, A., Adlakha, D., Resendiz, E., Turner, R., & Lowe, M.
URBAN DESIGN International
The socio-spatial roles of public space as an enabler for community resilience
Asadollahi Asl Zarkhah, S., Harteveld, M., van Dorst, M., & Adlakha, D.
Geographical Analysis
Internationally validated open access indicators of large public urban green space for healthy and sustainable cities
Turner, R., Higgs, C., Heikinheimo, V., Hunter, R., Vargas, J. C. B., Liu, S., Resendiz, E., Boeing, G., Adlakha, D., Schifanella, R., Rosa, G. L., Pugacheva, D., Chen, R., Poor, M. B., Molina‐García, J., Queralt, A., Puig‐Ribera, A., Del Pozo, P. S., Garza, C., . . . Lowe, M.
International Journal for Equity in Health, 24(1), 145
Quality of life, mental health and social relationships among older adults participating in the Recreovía physical activity community program
Wagner-Gutiérrez, N., Gonzalez, S. A., Rubio, M. A., Sánchez-Franco, S., Palencia-Pérez, L., Blanco, M., Adlakha, D., Aguirre-Patiño, J. S., Ossa, N., Vietto, G., Suárez, D., & Sarmiento, O. L.
Health & Social Care in the Community
Barriers to Participation in Nature Prescriptions: Evidence from a cross-sectional survey of adults in Australia, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States
Kondo, M., Adlakha, D., Marselle, M., Odell, N., Olcon, K., Deutsch, K., Feng, X., Hipp, J.A., & Astell-Burt, T.
2024
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 0(0)
Global Healthy and Sustainable City Indicators: Collaborative development of an open science toolkit for calculating and reporting on urban indicators internationally
Higgs, C., Lowe, M., Giles-Corti, B., Boeing, G., Delclòs-Alió, X., Puig-Ribera, A., Adlakha, D., Liu, S., Borello Vargas, J. C., Castillo-Riquelme, M., Jafari, A., Molina-García, J., Heikinheimo, V., Queralt, A., Cerin, E., Resendiz, E., Singh, D., Rodriguez, S., Suel, E., … Alderton, A.
Journal of Healthy Eating and Active Living. 4(3), 141-161
Factors influencing the likelihood of participation in green social prescriptions in an international sample
Odell, N.E., Adlakha, D., Olcoń, K., Kondo, M., Astell-Burt, T., Feng, X., & Hipp, J.A.
Health & Place, 90, 103331
Contact with nature, nature prescriptions, and loneliness: Evidence from an international survey of adults in Australia, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Astell-Burt, T., Kondo, M., Pritchard, T., Olcon, K., Hipp, J. A., Adlakha, D., Pappas, E., & Feng, X.
Cities, 155, 105340
Commentary: A road map for future data-driven urban planning and environmental health research
Dyer, G. M. C., Khomenko, S., Adlakha, D., Anenberg, S., Angelova, J., Behnisch, M., Boeing, G., Chen, X., Cirach, M., de Hoogh, K., Diez Roux, A. V., Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Flueckiger, B., Gasparrini, A., Iungman, T., Khreis, H., Kondo, M. C., Masselot, P., McDonald, R. I., . . . Nieuwenhuijsen, M.
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 101, 128493
Unveiling environmental justice in two US cities through greenspace accessibility and visible greenness exposure
Rahman, M. S., Meenar, M., Labib, S. M., Howell, T., Adlakha, D., & Woodward, B.
Working with Older People, 29(2), 191-195
Social engagement is associated with sedentary time in older males but not females living in India: analysis of a cross-sectional survey
Dogra, S., & Adlakha, D.
Environmental Research, 257, 119324
Exploring the nexus of urban form, transport, environment and health in large-scale urban studies: A state-of-the-art scoping review
Dyer, G. M. C., Khomenko, S., Adlakha, D., Anenberg, S., Behnisch, M., Boeing, G., Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Gasparrini, A., Khreis, H., Kondo, M. C., Masselot, P., McDonald, R. I., Montana, F., Mitchell, R., Mueller, N., Nawaz, M. O., Pisoni, E., Prieto-Curiel, R., Rezaei, N., . . . Nieuwenhuijsen, M.
Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 32(1), 91-106
Adaptation of the Recreovía during COVID-19 lockdowns: Making physical activity accessible to older adults in Bogotá, Colombia
González, S.A., Adlakha, D., Cabas, S., Sánchez-Franco, S.C., Rubio, M.A., Ossa, N., Martínez, P.A., Espinosa, N., & Sarmiento, O.L.
Cities and Health. 8(4), 544–553
Growing evidence that physical activity-supportive neighbourhoods can mitigate infectious and non-communicable diseases
Adlakha, D., Higgs, C., & Sallis, J. F.
2023
Journal of Sport and Health Science, 12(5), 553-556
Public health research on physical activity and COVID-19: Progress and updated priorities
Sallis, J.F., Adlakha, D., Oyeyemi, A., & Salvo, D.
Annual Review of Public Health, 44, 151–169
When moving is the only option: The role of necessity versus choice for understanding and promoting physical activity in low- and middle-income countries
Salvo, D., Jáuregui, A., Adlakha, D., Sarmiento, O.L., & Reis, R.
Heart, Lung and Circulation
Need and Interest in Nature Prescriptions to Protect Cardiovascular and Mental Health: A Nationally-Representative Study With Insights for Future Randomised Trials
Astell-Burt, T., Hipp, J. A., Gatersleben, B., Adlakha, D., Marselle, M., Olcoń, K., . . . Feng, X.
Journal of Physical Activity and Health
Status and Trends of Physical Activity Surveillance, Policy, and Research in 164 Countries: Findings From the Global Observatory for Physical Activity—GoPA! 2015 and 2020 Surveys
Varela, A.R., Hallal, P.C., Grueso, J.M., Pedišić, Z., Salvo, D., Nguyen, A., Klepac, B., Bauman, A., Siefken, K., Hinckson, E., Oyeyemi, A. L., Richards, J., Khidir, E.D.S., Inoue, S., Amagasa, S., Jauregui, A., da Silva, M. C., Lee, I. M., Ding, M., . . . Pratt, M.
2022
The Lancet Global Health, 10(6), e790-e791
The future is urban—integrated planning policies can enable healthy and sustainable cities
Adlakha, D., & Felix, J.
The Lancet Global Health, 10(6), e782-e785
Creating healthy and sustainable cities: what gets measured, gets done
2Giles-Corti, B., Moudon, A., Lowe, M., Adlakha, D., Cerin, E., Boeing, G., Higgs, C., Arundel, J., Liu, S., Hinckson, E., Salvo, D., Adams, M., Badland, H., Florindo, A., Gebel, K., Hunter, R., Mitáš, J., Oyeyemi, A., Puig-Ribera, A., Queralt, A., Santos, M., Schipperijn, J., Stevenson, M., Dyck, D., Vich, G., & Sallis, J.F.
The Lancet Global Health, 10(6), e882–e894
City planning policies to support health and sustainability: an international comparison of policy indicators for 25 cities
3Lowe, M., Adlakha, D., Sallis, J. F., Salvo, D., Cerin, E., Moudon, A. V., Higgs, C., Hinckson, E., Arundel, J., Boeing, G., Liu, S., Mansour, P., Gebel, K., Puig-Ribera, A., Mishra, P. B., Bozovic, T., Carson, J., Dygrýn, J., Florindo, A. A., . . . Giles-Corti, B.
The Lancet Global Health, 10(6), e895–e906
Determining thresholds for spatial urban design and transport features that support walking to create healthy and sustainable cities: findings from the IPEN Adult study
Cerin, E., Sallis, J. F., Salvo, D., Hinckson, E., Conway, T. L., Owen, N., van Dyck, D., Lowe, M., Higgs, C., Moudon, A. V., Adams, M. A., Cain, K. L., Christiansen, L. B., Davey, R., Dygrýn, J., Frank, L. D., Reis, R., Sarmiento, O. L., Adlakha, D., . . . Giles-Corti, B.
The Lancet Global Health, 10(6), e907–e918
Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities
Boeing, G., Higgs, C., Liu, S., Giles-Corti, B., Sallis, J. F., Cerin, E., Lowe, M., Adlakha, D., Hinckson, E., Moudon, A. V., Salvo, D., Adams, M. A., Barrozo, L. V., Bozovic, T., Delclòs-Alió, X., Dygrýn, J., Ferguson, S., Gebel, K., Ho, T. P., . . . Arundel, J.
The Lancet Global Health, 10(6), e919–e926
What next? Expanding our view of city planning and global health, and implementing and monitoring evidence-informed policy
Giles-Corti, B., Moudon, A. V., Lowe, M., Cerin, E., Boeing, G., Frumkin, H., Salvo, D., Foster, S., Kleeman, A., Bekessy, S., de Sá, T. H., Nieuwenhuijsen, M., Higgs, C., Hinckson, E., Adlakha, D., Arundel, J., Liu, S., Oyeyemi, A. L., Nitvimol, K., & Sallis, J. F.
Proceedings of the 10th State of Australasian Cities National Conference, 1-3 December 2021, Melbourne, Australia
Calculation of policy-relevant spatial indicators of urban liveability: experiences of scaling a research programme from local to global
Higgs, C., Alderton, A., Rozek, J., Adlakha, D., Badland, H., Boeing, G., Both, A., Cerin, E., Chandrabose, M., De Gruyter, C., Gunn, L., De Livera, A., Hinckson, E., Liu, S., Mavoa, S., Sallis, J., Simons, K., & Giles-Corti, B.
Urban Policy and Research
Policy-relevant spatial indicators of urban liveability and sustainability: Scaling from local to global
Higgs, C., Alderton, A., Rozek, J., Adlakha, D., Badland, H., Boeing, G., Both, A., Cerin, E., Chandrabose, M., De Gruyter, C., De Livera, A., Gunn, L., Hinckson, E., Liu, S., Mavoa, S., Sallis, J.F., Simons, K., & Giles-Corti, B.
Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, 1(1), 111-123
A pathway to prioritising and delivering healthy and sustainable cities
Lowe, M., Sallis, J. F., Salvo, D., Cerin, E., Boeing, G., Higgs, C., Liu, S., Hinckson, E., Adlakha, D., Arundel, J., Moudon, A. V., Resendiz, E., & Giles-Corti, B.
Sustainability, 14(3):1873
Assessing the impact of a new urban greenway using mobile, wearable technology-elicited walk- and bike-along interviews
Adlakha, D., Tully, M.A., & Mansour, P.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), 1448
“Green Enough Ain’t Good Enough:” Public Perceptions and Emotions Related to Green Infrastructure in Environmental Justice Communities
Meenar, M., Heckert, M., & Adlakha, D.
2021
PLoS ONE, 16(12): e0260919
The effect of different COVID-19 public health restrictions on mobility: A systematic review
Tully, M. A., McMaw, L., Adlakha, D., Blair, N., McAneney, J., McAneney, H., et al.
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18, 142
Investigating the physical activity, health, wellbeing, social and environmental effects of a new urban greenway: A natural experiment (the PARC study)
Hunter, R. F., Adlakha, D., Cardwell, C., Cupples, M. E., Donnelly, M., Ellis, G., Gough, A., Hutchinson, G., Kearney, T., Longo, A., Prior, L., McAneney, H., Ferguson, S., Johnston, B., Stevenson, M., Kee, F., & Tully, M. A.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(19), 10360
Individual characteristics associated with active travel in low and high income groups in the UK
Lawlor, E., Hunter, R.F., Adlakha, D., Frank, K., & Tully, M.A.
Planning Theory and Practice
Designing intergenerational communities: Next steps for age-friendly cities in the Global South
Adlakha, D., Sarmiento, O.L., & Franco, S.S.
Cities & Health
Asian city prospects for planning and urban health
Liu, J., Adlakha, D., Thomas, Y., Banerjee, S., Yongsi, B.N., Jayasinghe, S.
Geographical Analysis
A generalized framework for measuring pedestrian accessibility around the world using open data
Liu, S., Higgs, C., Arundel, J., Boeing, G., Flores, D., Cerdera, N., Cerin, E., Adlakha, D., Lowe, M. & Giles-Corti, G.C.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(4), 1491
Designing age-friendly communities: Exploring qualitative perspectives on urban green spaces and ageing in two Indian megacities
Adlakha, D., Chandra, M., Krishna, M., Smith, L. & Tully, M.A.
Environment International, 146, 106236
Defining pathways to healthy sustainable urban development
Tonne, C., Adair, L., Adlakha, D., Anguelovski, I., Belesova, K., Berger, M., Brelsford, C., Dadvand, P., Dimitrova, A., Giles-Corti, B., Heinz, A., Mehran, N., Nieuwenhuijsen, M., Pelletier, F., Ranzani, O., Rodenstein, M., Rybski, D., Samavati, S., Satterthwaite, D., . . . Adli, M.
2020
Cities & Health—Special Issue on COVID-19, Cities, and Health, 1-5
Activity-friendly neighbourhoods can benefit non-communicable and infectious diseases
Adlakha, D. & Sallis, J.F.
Journal of Sport and Health Science, S2095-2546(2020)30064-30068. Special Issue on COVID-19
An international physical activity and public health research agenda to inform coronavirus disease-19 policies and practices
Sallis, J. F., Adlakha, D., Oyeyemi, A., & Salvo, D.
British Journal of Sports Medicine, 54(24), 1447
Making the case for ‘physical activity security’: The 2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour from a Global South perspective
Lambert, E.V., Kolbe-Alexander, T., Adlakha, D., Oyeyemi, A., Anokye, N. K., Goenka, S., Mogrovejo, P., & Salvo, D.
Cities & Health—Special Issue on Asian City Futures: Spatial Form and Health, 1-9
Built environment correlates of overweight and obesity in Chennai, India
Adlakha, D., Brownson, R.C., & Hipp, J.A.
Psychology and Developing Societies, 32(2), 254-277
Neighbourhood supports for active ageing in urban India
Adlakha, D., Krishna, M. Woolrych, R., & Ellis, G.
Journal of Transport & Health, 18, 100875
Mind the gap: Gender differences in walkability, transportation and physical activity in urban India
Adlakha, D. & Parra, D.C.
Journal of Urban Health
Geographic distribution of the Ciclovia and Recreovia Programs by neighborhood SES in Bogotá: How unequal is the geographic access assessed via distance-based measures?
Parra, D.C., Adlakha, D., Pinzon, J.D., Van Zandt, A., Brownson, R.C. & Gomez, L.F.
PLOS ONE, 15(3), e0230454
Built environment correlates of physical activity in low-and-middle income countries: A systematic review
Elshahat, S., O’Rorke, M., & Adlakha, D.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health—Special Issue on The Challenges and Opportunities for Promoting Active Healthy Ageing, 17, 5:1708.
The association between sedentary behavior and sarcopenia among adults aged ≥65 years in low- and middle-income countries
Smith. L, Tully, M.A., Jacob, L., Blackburn, N., Adlakha, D., Caserotti, P., Soysal, P., Veronese, N., Sánchez, G., Vancampfort, D., & Koyanagi, A.
2019
Workplace Health and Safety
Burned out: Workplace policies and practices can tackle occupational burnout
Adlakha, D.
Environment International, 133(Pt A), 105181
The nexus between air pollution, green infrastructure and human health
Kumar, P., Druckman, A., Gallagher, J., Gatersleben, B., Allison, S., Eisenman, T.S., Hoang, U., Hama, S., Tiwari, A., Sharma, A., Adlakha, D., McNabola, A., Astell-Burt, T., Feng, X., Skeldon, A.C., Lusignan, S., & Morawska, L.
2018
American Journal of Public Health, 108(9), 1197-1199
Brief standing desk intervention to reduce sedentary behavior at a physical activity conference in 2016
Wilson, J., Adlakha, D., Cunningham, C., Best, P., Cardwell, C. R., Stephenson, A., Murphy, M.H., & Tully, M.A.
Journal of Physical Activity and Health-Proceedings of the 7th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress, 15(S1), S1-s249
Is physical activity in middle-income countries driven by necessity or choice? Exploring the roles of motor-vehicle ownership and socioeconomic status on transport-based physical activity in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and Chennai, India
Salvo, D., Adlakha, D., Hipp, A., Brownson, R., & Pratt, M.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(9), 1840
Exploring neighbourhood environments and active commuting in Chennai, India
Adlakha, D., Hipp, J.A., Brownson, R.C., & Sallis, J.F.
2017
JMIR Serious Games, 5(4), e21
Examining motivations to play Pokémon GO and their influence on perceived outcomes and physical activity
Marquet, O., Alberico, C., Adlakha, D., & Hipp, J. A.
Cities & Health, 1(1), 89-94
Pokémon GO or Pokémon Gone: How can cities respond to trends in technology inking people and space?
Adlakha, D., Marquet, O., Hipp, J.A., & Tully, M.A.
Frontiers in Public Health, 5(105):
Quantifying the modern city: Emerging technologies and big data for active living research
Adlakha, D.
Earlier
Preventive Medicine—Supplement: Active Living Research: Promoting Physical Activity in Public Spaces to Advance a Culture of Health, 103, S81-89
“Can We Walk?” Environmental supports for physical activity in India
Adlakha, D., Hipp, J.A., Brownson, R.C., Eyler, A.E., Lesorogol, C.K., & Raghavan, R.
Journal of Transport & Health—Special Issue on Built Environment, Transport, and Public Health, 3(4), 485-499
Neighborhood-based differences in walkability, physical activity, and weight status in India
Adlakha, D., Hipp, J.A., & Brownson, R.C.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(4), 401
Adaptation and evaluation of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale in India (NEWS-India)
Adlakha, D., Hipp, J.A., & Brownson, R.C.
Preventive Medicine Reports, 4, 591-596
Exploring associations between perceived home and work neighborhood environments, diet behaviors and obesity: Results from a survey of employed adults in Missouri
Tabak, R., Hipp, J.A., Dodson, E., Yang, L., Adlakha, D., & Brownson, R.C.
Journal of Transport & Health, 2(2), 212-218
Choice of commuting mode among employees: Do home neighborhood environment, worksite neighborhood environment, and worksite policy and supports matter?
Yang, L., Hipp, J.A., Adlakha, D., Marx, C., Tabak, R., & Brownson, R.C.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 48(1), 104-107
Home and workplace built environment supports for physical activity
Adlakha, D., Hipp, J.A., Marx, C., Yang, L., Tabak, R. Dodson, E., & Brownson, R.C.
Frontiers in Public Health, 2(41)
Use of emerging technologies to assess differences in outdoor physical activity in St. Louis, Missouri
Adlakha, D., Budd, E. L., Gernes, R., Sequeira, S., & Hipp, J. A.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 44(1), 96-97
Emerging technologies: Webcams and crowd-sourcing to identify active transportation
Hipp, J. A., Adlakha, D., Eyler, A. A., Chang, B., & Pless, R.
LARNet: The Cyber Journal of Applied Leisure and Recreation Research, 16(4), 23-36
Social ecological constraints to park use in communities with proximate park access
Hipp, J.A., Chockalingam, R., & Adlakha, D.
In Proceedings of the 4th International SenseCam and Pervasive Imaging Conference, 24-25. Nov 18-19 2013, San Diego, CA, USA. ACM 978-1-4503-2247-8/13/11
Do you see what I see: crowdsource annotation of captured scenes
Hipp, J. A., Adlakha, D., Gernes, R., Kargol, A., & Pless, R.
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 15, Supplement 1(0), S33
Can publicly available web cameras and mechanical Turks be used to evaluate physical activity policy and built environment change?
Hipp, J. A., Pless, R., Adlakha, D., Chang, B., & Eyler, A.