Mobility, Heat Stress and Undernutrition (MoHSUn): examining the emergence and management of complex health and wellbeing risks for IDP Women

This project seeks to expand understanding of the connection between mobility, heat stress and undernutrition, focusing on how internal displacement affects women IDPs, developing policy recommendations regarding how women’s mobility as IDPs shapes vulnerability to heat stress and undernutrition.

The project has three key objectives: 1)to examine how women IDPs everyday lives shape vulnerability to heat stress and undernutrition, 2)develop a conceptual framework for how mobility, heat stress and undernutrition relate, and 3)develop policy recommendations to support effective interventions within IDP populations.

The project will bring together expertise from academia, policy sectors, and members of the IDP community to bridge gaps between nutrition and thermal physiology, medical and ethnographic approaches, and scientific and lay knowledge.

The project will involve transdisciplinary expertise and produce a Conceptual Framework in Phase 1 and refine it through assessments and case studies in Nigeria and Pakistan.

Additionally, it will develop a Transdisciplinary Learning System to support the project, which will be publicly available for use in other transdisciplinary health and wellbeing concerns and multimorbidity research.

Through careful engagement with IDP communities and using ethnographic approaches, the project will ensure that policy recommendations are culturally sensitive and will have a significant impact on global health.