The CUSSH programme: supporting cities’ transformational change towards health and sustainability

Davies, MORCID logo; Belesova, KORCID logo; Crane, MORCID logo; Hale, JORCID logo; Haines, AORCID logo; Hutchinson, EORCID logo; Kiesewetter, G; Mberu, BORCID logo; Mohajeri, NORCID logo; Michie, SORCID logo; +13 more...Milner, JORCID logo; Moore, G; Osrin, DORCID logo; Pineo, HORCID logo; Pluchinotta, IORCID logo; Prasad, A; Salvia, G; Symonds, P; Taylor, JORCID logo; Turcu, CORCID logo; Tsoulou, I; Zimmermann, NORCID logo; Wilkinson, PORCID logo and (2021) The CUSSH programme: supporting cities’ transformational change towards health and sustainability. Wellcome Open Research, 6. p. 100. DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16678.2
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<ns3:p>This paper describes a global research programme on the complex systemic connections between urban development and health. Through transdisciplinary methods the <ns3:italic>Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health</ns3:italic> (CUSSH) project will develop critical evidence on how to achieve the far-reaching transformation of cities needed to address vital environmental imperatives for planetary health in the 21st Century. CUSSH’s core components include: (i) a review of evidence on the effects of climate actions (both mitigation and adaptation) and factors influencing their implementation in urban settings; (ii) the development and application of methods for tracking the progress of cities towards sustainability and health goals; (iii) the development and application of models to assess the impact on population health, health inequalities, socio-economic development and environmental parameters of urban development strategies, in order to support policy decisions; (iv) iterative in-depth engagements with stakeholders in partner cities in low-, middle- and high-income settings, using systems-based participatory methods, to test and support the implementation of the transformative changes needed to meet local and global health and sustainability objectives; (v) a programme of public engagement and capacity building. Through these steps, the programme will provide transferable evidence on how to accelerate actions essential to achieving population-level health and global climate goals through, amongst others, changing cities’ energy provision, transport infrastructure, green infrastructure, air quality, waste management and housing.</ns3:p>


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