The Research Hub for Urban Sustainability, Health and Equity (RHUSH) is a leading transdisciplinary hub for research, training and public engagement on urban health that brings together two research projects – Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH) and Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities (Pathways). The Hub was awarded £10.3m by the Wellcome Trust as part of the Our Planet, Our Health scheme and began operation in 2018 for an initial period of four years.
The Hub’s principal objective is to conduct translational research that will contribute to improving population health and enhancing health equity and environmental sustainability in cities around the world. The Hub, and its projects, will achieve this objective through comparative studies that involve coproduction of knowledge among academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, and civil society; developing methods and models for prospective policy evaluation and applying them to data from our partner cities; and training the next generation of research and policy leaders in urban health, while establishing the foundations for sustaining and expanding the Hub beyond the Wellcome funding period.