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2023

Hartinger, S. M., Yglesias-González, M., Blanco-Villafuerte, L., Palmeiro-Silva, Y. K., Lescano, A. G., Stewart-Ibarra, A., ... & Romanello, M. (2023). The 2022 South America report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: trust the science. Now that we know, we must act.ÌýThe Lancet Regional Health–Americas.Ìý

Milner, J., Turner, G., Ibbetson, A., Eustachio Colombo, P., Green, R., Dangour, A.D., Haines, A., Wilkinson, P. (2023). Impact on mortality of pathways to ‘Net Zero’ greenhouse gas emissions in England and Wales: a multisectoral modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health.Ìý(22)00310-2Ìý

Mohajeri, N., James, M., Jonathon, T., Gregor, K., Agust, G., Harry, K., ... & Mike, D. (2023). Urban-rural disparity in global estimation of PM2. 5 household air pollution and its attributable health burden.ÌýThe Lancet Planetary Health.

Moore, G., Pluchinotta, I., Pineo, H., Osrin, D., Zimmermann, N., Salvia, G., & Davies, M. (2023). 14. Formative developmental evaluation: a transdisciplinary urban regeneration project in London, UK. Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspective, 247.

Muindi, K., Iddi, S., Gitau, H., & Mberu, B. (2023). Housing and health outcomes: evidence on child morbidities from six Sub-Saharan African countries. BMC pediatrics, 23(1), 1-13.Ìý

Niu, Y., Yang, J., Zhao, Q., Gao, Y., Xue, T., Yin, Q., ... & Liu, Q. (2023). The main and added effects of heat on mortality in 33 Chinese cities from 2007 to 2013. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 17(7), 81.Ìý

2022

Clare, K., Maani, N., & Milner, J. (2022). Meat, money and messaging: How the environmental and health harms of red and processed meat consumption are framed by the meat industry.ÌýFood Policy,Ìý109, 102234.Ìý

Iddi, S., Muindi, K., Gitau, H., & Mberu, B. (2022). Characterization of Healthy Housing in Africa: Method, Profiles, and Determinants. Journal of Urban Health, 1-18.Ìý

Lunetto, M., Castro, O., Gericke, C., & Hale, J. (2022). Barriers and enablers to local active travel during COVID-19: A case study of Streetspace interventions in two London boroughs. [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Wellcome Open Res 2023, 8:177 ()

Lunetto, M., Hale, J., & Michie, S. (2022). achieving effective climate action in cities by understanding behavioral systems. One Earth, 5(7), 745-748.Ìý

O'Keeffe, J., Pluchinotta, I., De Stercke, S., Hinson, C., Puchol-Salort, P., Mijic, A., ... & Collins, A. M. (2022). Evaluating natural capital performance of urban development through system dynamics: A case study from London. Science of The Total Environment, 153673.Ìý

Petrou, G., Mavrogianni, A., Symonds, P., & Davies, M. (2022, October). Beyond Normal: Guidelines on How to Identify Suitable Model Input Distributions for Building Performance Analysis. International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA).Ìý

Pineo, H. (2022). Healthy Urbanism. Designing and Planning Equitable Sustainable and Inclusive Places. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore. Ìý

Pluchinotta, I., Zhou, K., Salvia, G., Moore, G., & Zimmermann, N. (2022). Grounding simulation models in a participatory process: a case study of use of urban natural space in Thamesmead, London.Ìý

Romanello, M., Di Napoli, C., Drummond, P., Green, C., Kennard, H., Lampard, P., ... & Costello, A. (2022). The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels. The Lancet, 400(10363), 1619-1654.Ìý(22)01540-9

Salvia, G., Pluchinotta, I., Tsoulou, I., Moore, G., & Zimmermann, N. (2022). Understanding Urban Green Space Usage through Systems Thinking: A Case Study in Thamesmead, London. Sustainability, 14(5), 2575.Ìý

Tsoulou, I., Jain, N., Oikonomou, E., Petrou, G., Howard, A., Gupta, R., ... & Davies, M. (2022, January). Assessing the Current and Future Risk of Overheating in London’s Care Homes: The Effect of Passive Ventilation. International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA).Ìý

Xu, M., Chang, N., Tu, T., Sun, J., Jiang, J., Xia, Y., ... & Liu, Q. (2022). Economic burden of dengue fever in China: A retrospective research study.ÌýPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases,Ìý16(5), e0010360.Ìý

Zhang, L., & Hale, J. (2022). Barriers and Enablers to Clothing Repair and Repurpose in UK Citizens. Ìý

2021

Belesova, K., Callaghan, M., Minx, J. C., Creutzig, F., Turcu, C., Hutchinson, E., ... & Wilkinson, P. (2021). Climate action for health and wellbeing in cities: a protocol for the systematic development of a database of peer-reviewed studies using machine learning methods. Wellcome open research, 6.ÌýÌý

Crane, M., Lloyd, S., Haines, A., Ding, D., Hutchinson, E., ... & Turcu, C.Ìý(2021). Transforming cities for sustainability: A health perspective. Environment International, 147, 106366.Ìý

Davies, M., Belesova, K., Crane, M., Hale, J., Haines, A., Hutchinson, E., ... & Wilkinson, P. (2021). The CUSSH programme: learning how to support cities’ transformational change towards health and sustainability. Wellcome Open Research, 6(100), 100.

Deloly, C., Roué-Le Gall, A., Moore, G., Bretelle, L., Milner, J., Mohajeri, N., ... & Davies, M. (2021). Relationship-building around a policy decision-support tool for urban health. Buildings and Cities, 2(1).Ìý

Dianati, K., Schafer, L., Milner, J., Gomez-Sanabria, A., Gitau, H., Hale, J., ...& Davies, M.Ìý(2021). A system dynamics-based scenario analysis of residential solid waste management in Kisumu, Kenya. Science of the Total Environment. 777., 146200. ÌýÌý

Eustachio Colombo, P., Milner, J., Scheelbeek, P. F., Taylor, A., Parlesak, A., Kastner, T., ... & Green, R. (2021). Pathways to" 5-a-day": modeling the health impacts and environmental footprints of meeting the target for fruit and vegetable intake in the United Kingdom. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, nqab076.ÌýÌý

Ferguson, L., Taylor, J., Zhou, K., Shrubsole, C., Symonds, P., Davies, M., & Dimitroulopoulou, S. (2021). Systemic inequalities in indoor air pollution exposure in London, UK. Buildings and Cities, 2(1).

Goodess, C., Berk, S., Ratna, S. B., Brousse, O., Davies, M., Heaviside, C., ... & Pineo, H. (2021). Climate change projections for sustainable and healthy cities. Buildings and Cities, 2(1).ÌýÌý.ÌýData available at:Ìý

Hamilton, I., Kennard, H., McGushin, A., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Kiesewetter, G., Lott, M., ... & Watts, N. (2021). The public health implications of the Paris Agreement: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(2), e74-e83.

Lu, S., Symonds, P., Verschoor, N., Chalabi, Z., Taylor, J., & Davies, M. (2021, November). Use of Beta Regression to investigate the link between home air infiltration rate and self-reported health. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 2069, No. 1, p. 012178). IOP Publishing.Ìý

Mavrogianni, A., Taylor, J., Symonds, P., Oikonomou, E., Pineo, H., Zimmermann, N., & Davies, M. (2021). Cool Cities by Design: Shaping a Healthy and Equitable London in a Warming Climate. In Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities (pp. 71-98). Springer, Cham.Ìý

Milner, J.,ÌýDavies, M., Haines, A., Huxley, R., Michie, S., Robertson, L., ... & Wilkinson, P. (2021). Emerging from COVID-19: Lessons for Action on Climate Change and Health in Cities. Journal of Urban Health. 1-5. Ìý Ìý

Mohajeri, N., Walch, A., Gudmundsson, A., Heaviside, C., Askari, S., Wilkinson, P., & Davies, M. (2021). Covid-19 mobility restrictions: impacts on urban air quality and health. Buildings & Cities, 2(1), 759-778.Ìý

Moore, G., Michie, S., Anderson, J., Belesova, K., Crane, M., Deloly, C., ... & Osrin, D. (2021). Developing a programme theory for a transdisciplinary research collaboration: Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 35. Ìý

Niu, Y., Li, Z., Gao, Y., Liu, X., Xu, L., Vardoulakis, S., ... & Liu, Q. (2021). A Systematic Review of the Development and Validation of the Heat Vulnerability Index: Major Factors, Methods, and Spatial Units.ÌýCurrent climate change reports,Ìý7(3), 87-97.Ìý

Patterson, E., Eustachio Colombo, P., Milner, J., Green, R., & Elinder, L. S. (2021). Potential health impact of increasing adoption of sustainable dietary practices in Sweden. BMC public health, 21(1), 1-10.ÌýÌý

Petrou, G., Mavrogianni, A., Symonds, P., & Davies, M. (2021, November). A case study on the impact of fixed input parameter values in the modelling of indoor overheating. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 2069, No. 1, p. 012137). IOP Publishing.Ìý

Pineo, H., & Moore, G. (2021). Built environment stakeholders' experiences of implementing health urban development: an exploratory study. Cities & Health, 1-15.ÌýÌý

Pineo, H., Turnbull, E. R., Davies, M., Rowson, M., Hayward, A. C., Hart, G., ... & Aldridge, R. W. (2021). A new transdisciplinary research model to investigate and improve the health of the public. Health Promotion International.ÌýÌý

Pineo, H., Zhou, K., Niu, Y., Hale, J., Willan, C., Crane, M., ... & Davies, M. (2021). Evidence-informed urban health and sustainability governance in two Chinese cities. Buildings and Cities, 2(1).ÌýÌý

Pluchinotta, I., Salvia, G., & Zimmermann, N. (2021). The importance of eliciting stakeholders’ system boundary perceptions for problem structuring and decision-making. European Journal of Operational Research.Ìý

Salvia, G., Zimmermann, N., Willan, C., Hale, J., Gitau, H., Muindi, K., ... & Davies, M. (2021). The wicked problem of waste management: An attention-based analysis of stakeholder behaviours. Journal of Cleaner Production, 129200.Ìý

Symonds, P., Verschoor, N., Chalabi, Z., Taylor, J., & Davies, M.Ìý(2021). Home energy efficiency and subjective health in Greater London. Journal of Urban Health, 1-13.Ìý

Taylor, J., Symonds, P., Heaviside, C., Chalabi, Z.,ÌýDavies, M.Ìý & Wilkinson, P. (2021). Projecting the impacts of housing on temperature-related mortality in London during typical future years. Energy and Buildings, 111233.ÌýÌý

Taylor, J., & Symonds, P. (2021, May). Estimating spatial variation of moisture risks in English and Welsh dwellings. In International Conference on Moisture in Buildings.Ìý

Tsoulou, I., Taylor, J., Symonds, P., Mohajeri, N., & Davies, M. (2021, November). Improving indoor thermal comfort, air quality and the health of older adults through environmental policies in London. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 2069, No. 1, p. 012240). IOP Publishing.Ìý

Turcu, C., Crane, M., Hutchinson, E., Lloyd, S., Belesova, K., Wilkinson, P., & Davies, M. (2021). A multi-scalar perspective on health and urban housing: an umbrella review. Buildings and Cities, 2(1), 734-758.Ìý

Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Beagley, J., Belesova, K., ... & Costello, A. (2021). The 2020 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises. The Lancet, 397(10269), 129-170.Ìý(20)32290-X

Younkin, S. G., Fremont, H. C., & Patz, J. A. (2021). The Health-Oriented Transportation Model: Estimating the health benefits of active transportation. Journal of Transport & Health, 22, 101103.Ìý

2020

Callway, R., Pineo, H., & Moore, G. (2020). Understanding the role of standards in the negotiation of a healthy built environment.ÌýSustainability,Ìý12(23), 9884.ÌýÌý

Ferguson, L., Taylor, J., Davies, M., Shrubsole, C., Symonds, P., & Dimitroulopoulou, S. (2020). Exposure to indoor air pollution across socio-economic groups in high-income countries: A scoping review of the literature and a modelling methodology. Environment International, 143, 105748.Ìý

Hale, J., Hastings, J., West, R., Lefevre, C. E., Direito, A., Bohlen, L. C., ... & Michie, S. (2020). An ontology-based modelling system (OBMS) for representing behaviour change theories applied to 76 theories. Wellcome Open Research, 5(177), 177.Ìý

Ibbetson, A., Symonds, P., & Hutchinson, E. (2020). Data to support small area health impact modelling of air pollution in the United Kingdom. Data in brief, 29, 105148.Ìý

Milner, J., Hamilton, I., Woodcock, J., Williams, M., Davies, M., Wilkinson, P., & Haines, A. (2020). Health benefits of policies to reduce carbon emissions. Bmj, 368.

Murage, P., Kovats, S., Sarran, C., Taylor, J., McInnes, R., & Hajat, S. (2020). What individual and neighbourhood-level factors increase the risk of heat-related mortality? A case-crossover study of over 185,000 deaths in London using high-resolution climate datasets. Environment international, 134, 105292.Ìý

Niu, Y., Gao, Y., Yang, J., Qi, L., Xue, T., Guo, M., ... & Liu, Q. (2020). Short-term effect of apparent temperature on daily emergency visits for mental and behavioral disorders in Beijing, China: A time-series study. Science of The Total Environment, 139040.Ìý

Pineo, H. (2020). Towards healthy urbanism: inclusive, equitable and sustainable (THRIVES)–an urban design and planning framework from theory to praxis. Cities & health, 1-19.Ìý

Pineo, H., Moore, G., & Braithwaite, I. (2020). Incorporating practitioner knowledge to test and improve a new conceptual framework for healthy urban design and planning. Cities & Health, 1-16.Ìý

Pineo, H., Audia, C., Black, D., French, M., Gemmell, E., Lovasi, G. S., ... & Siri, J. (2020). Building a Methodological Foundation for Impactful Urban Planetary Health Science. Journal of Urban Health, 1-11.Ìý

Symonds, P., Milner, J., Mohajeri, N., Aplin, J., Hale, J., Lloyd, S. J., ... & Davies, M. (2020). A tool for assessing the climate change mitigation and health impacts of environmental policies: the Cities Rapid Assessment Framework for Transformation (CRAFT). Wellcome Open Research, 5(269), 269.Ìý

Zimmermann, N., Symonds, P., Dianati, K., Baghaei Lakeh, A., Robertson, L., Wilkinson, P., & Davies, M. (2020). A participatory process for modelling green infrastructure implementation in London. SALUS Journal.Ìý

Zimmermann, N., Pluchinotta, I., Salvia, G., Touchie, M., Stopps, H., Hamilton, I., ... & Chen, T. (2020). Moving online: reflections from conducting system dynamics workshops in virtual settings. System Dynamics Review. ISO 690

2019

Dianati, K., Zimmermann, N., Milner, J., Muindi, K., Ezeh, A., Chege, M., ... & Davies, M. (2019). Household air pollution in Nairobi's slums: A long-term policy evaluation using participatory system dynamics. Science of the Total Environment, 660, 1108-1134.Ìý

Espinosa, A. V., Symonds, P., & Petrou, G. Modelling the Influence of Layout on Overheating Risk of London Flats.Ìý

Li, X., Taylor, J., & Symonds, P. (2019). Indoor overheating and mitigation of converted lofts in London, UK. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 40(4), 409-425.Ìý

Petrou, G., Symonds, P., Mavrogianni, A., Mylona, A., & Davies, M. (2019). The summer indoor temperatures of the English housing stock: Exploring the influence of dwelling and household characteristics. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 40(4), 492-511.Ìý

Pineo, H., Zimmermann, N., & Davies, M. (2019). Leveraging the Urban Planning System to Shape Healthy Cities. Urban health.ÌýÌý

Sanchez-Guevara, C., Peiró, M. N., Taylor, J., Mavrogianni, A., & González, J. N. (2019). Assessing population vulnerability towards summer energy poverty: Case studies of Madrid and London. Energy and Buildings, 190, 132-143.Ìý Ìý

Symonds, P., Rees, D., Daraktchieva, Z., McColl, N., Bradley, J., Hamilton, I., & Davies, M. (2019). Home energy efficiency and radon: An observational study. Indoor air, 29(5), 854-864.Ìý Ìý

Symonds, P., Hutchinson, E., Ibbetson, A., Taylor, J., Milner, J., Chalabi, Z., ... & Wilkinson, P. (2019). MicroEnv: A microsimulation model for quantifying the impacts of environmental policies on population health and health inequalities. Science of the Total Environment, 697, 134105.Ìý

Taylor, J., Shrubsole, C., Symonds, P., Mackenzie, I., & Davies, M. (2019). Application of an indoor air pollution metamodel to a spatially-distributed housing stock. Science of The Total Environment, 667, 390-399.Ìý

Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Boykoff, M., ... & Chambers, J. (2019). The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate. The Lancet, 394(10211), 1836-1878.Ìý

Zimmermann, N., Turcu, C., & Crane, M. (2019, July). Transforming thinking to address climate change in cities: The missing organisational perspective. EGOS-European Group for Organizational Studies.ÌýÌý

2018

Belesova, K., Hale, J., Aplin, J., Baghaei Lakeh, A., Davies, M., Dianati, K., ... & Taylor, J. (2018, October). Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health: A structured approach to support the development and implementation of city policies for population and planetary health. WHO.Ìý

Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Berry, H., ... & Costello, A. (2018). The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come. The Lancet, 392(10163), 2479-2514.Ìý(18)32594-7

Watts, N., Amann, M., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Bouley, T., Boykoff, M., ... & Costello, A. (2018). The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health. The Lancet, 391(10120), 581-630.Ìý(17)32464-9

Zimmermann, N., Symonds, P., Davies, M., Wilkinson, P., Dianati, K., Taylor, J., & Milner, J. (2018). Urban systems complexity in sustainability and health: an interdisciplinary modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2, S21.Ìý Ìý

Data

Belesova, K., Callaghan, M., Minx, J. C., Creutzig, F., Turcu, C., Hutchinson, E., ... & Wilkinson, P. (2021). Climate action for health and wellbeing in cities: a protocol for the systematic development of a database of peer-reviewed studies using machine learning methods. Wellcome open research, 6.

LSHTM Data Compass: Search strategies for: "Climate action for health and wellbeing in cities: a protocol for the systematic development of a database of peer-reviewed studies using machine learning methods".Ìý

Goodess, C., Berk, S., Ratna, S. B., Brousse, O., Davies, M., Heaviside, C., ... & Pineo, H. (2021). Climate change projections for sustainable and healthy cities. Buildings and Cities, 2(1). Data:Ìý

Moore, G., Michie, S., Anderson, J., Belesova, K., Crane, M., Deloly, C., ... & Osrin, D. (2021). Developing a programme theory for a transdisciplinary research collaboration: Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 35Ìý

Open Science Framework: CUSSH Programme theory.

Symonds, P., Milner, J., Mohajeri, N., Aplin, J., Hale, J., Lloyd, S. J., ... & Davies, M. (2020). A tool for assessing the climate change mitigation and health impacts of environmental policies: the Cities Rapid Assessment Framework for Transformation (CRAFT). Wellcome Open Research, 5(269), 269.

Extended data: Figshare: A tool for assessing the climate change mitigation and health impacts of environmetnal policies.Ìý