About Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health: CUSSH

This is a collection of papers representing the work of a group of interdisciplinary scholars from the Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH) project, funded by Wellcome Trust. CUSSH is a five-year international research project that started in 2018 and is based on collaborations between 13 partner organizations across four continents that aims to help cities develop in ways which improve population health and environmental sustainability.  


Collection Advisors

Michael Davies
Michael Davies is a professor of building physics and the environment at UCL, IEDE and the PI of the CUSSH project. Michael’s research work focuses on understanding the complex relationship between the built environment and human well-being. Through a transdisciplinary research agenda, he currently leads a multi-skilled team which has sought innovation and stakeholder participation in responding to the world’s urban health challenges. Outcomes include the development of methods related to the modelling of health impacts and the application of system dynamics approaches for co-generating research aiming at healthy sustainable development of cities.


Ioanna Tsoulou
Ioanna Tsoulou is a research fellow in building physics and urban modeling at UCL, IEDE and scientific manager of the CUSSH project. Ioanna’s research explores interactions between humans and the built environment under environmental pressures, in particular overheating, energy demand and air pollution, with emphasis on passive adaptation strategies, aiming to understand how to improve conditions for vulnerable populations.