The Action Against Stunting Hub – an interdisciplinary research project conducting vital research to address the intractable global challenge of restricted growth in children.

Working directly with communities across India, Indonesia and Senegal who are facing this burden, the Hub recognised that there is not one single cause, but a multitude of factors affecting the development of children. It therefore applied a holistic, Whole Child Approach, examining child-focused interventions to prevent, improve and even reverse some key features of this global issue.

As the public engagement partner, Science Made Simple worked with the research teams in each country to develop interventions with schools, communities and policy makers in order to raise awareness of the issues around child stunting, and the expected outcomes of the scientific research conducted by the Hub.

As the causes of child stunting are many and varied, so too are the academic disciplines needed to address them. The Hub worked to nurture interdisciplinarity across the teams to help the project make connections between its research areas.